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18 février, 2003
 
Tomoye Simplify demo

If you're developing community-ish, person-centered knowledge management environments and haven't looked at Tomoye's guided tour by now, you probably should. Looks pretty well-thought-out. And it sells, apparently.
What do you think? []  links to this post    10:35:27 PM  
An introduction to wikis

From Open Magazine, a (not especially well-written) article introducing Wikis, with a pro and a con view appended. Wikis are still getting 0.01% of the press that weblogs do, so it's refreshing to see pieces like this.

For the hordes of people all over the world who use Wiki, they are apt to argue that Wiki is the best ‘shared space’ going. Wiki is an Open Source tool for collaboration. With Wiki, everyone has edit access to everything. Wiki allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

“Open editing" means that everyday users create and edit any page in a web site. Anyone can go into a document, make additions, amendments, deletions, edits, and reformats….Scary! Doesn’t that lead to chaos—or, even worse, garbage? There is a counter-response for those who think Wiki might be an information disaster waiting to happen. Wiki users say, What disaster?


What do you think? []  links to this post    10:29:00 PM  
BOAI turns one

The Budapest Open Access Initiative, which aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet, recently turned one year old. Read and sign if you agree.
What do you think? []  links to this post    10:04:15 PM  
Another step towards semantic blogging

HubLink looks like a mutant nephew of the TopicExchange.

HubLink is a prototype of a Blosxom-powered RSS feed and CSS-based semantic weblog that uses TrackBack, autodiscovery and XML web services to form ridiculously easy groups.

I'm a little confused as to what this is exactly, but Alf really impresses me with his productivity.

Update: Alf comments:

It is basically the same as TopicExchange, only with a more focussed range. I also wanted to aim towards the semantic web thing by including metadata in the page. Though I'm not sure if I succeeded at all.


What do you think? []  links to this post    9:47:17 PM  
Visualizing blog neighborhoods

Blogstreet launches visual neighborhood [Joi Ito Web]

This builds on the same (TouchGraph) genes as Alf's various Google, Amazon, etc. visualizers. As it works now, it shows almost only well-established blogs, so I didn't discover anything new in my neighborhood.

Note there is also a TouchGraph Wiki browser out there, though I reckon it's not completely mature.


What do you think? []  links to this post    9:26:43 PM  
Meanwhile, on planet Everything2...

Nice writeup on the Hipbone Games (inspired by Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game) by Mike Sugarbaker.
What do you think? []  links to this post    8:33:00 PM  
Inaccessible conversations

"I find myself, from time to time, in discussion regarding topics on which I have a lack of depth, of experience; economics, business, law and the like; this is one of the most effective ways to learn that I've found. Recently, though, I've started noticing that some communities don't accept this as a valid method of learning.

One of my social communities refuses to hold discussion on some topics with me, until I've formally educated myself via other means; we clash over and over again on the core issue of "terminology". There's a rigid set of terminology definitions that I'm expected to know, without which discussion is refused. It's very strange; where normally I'd learn out of the discussions the context and usage of the terminology, the chance never appears. Without access to ongoing discussions, I haven't been able to internalize the terminology required to "gain access", as it were, to the discussions."

Read on over at Floating Atoll.


What do you think? []  links to this post    8:25:32 PM  
How to ping weblogs.com

Several blog indexing services (such as the blogging ecosystem) look up weblogs.com to find blogs. The problem is that not all weblog tools ping that service to notify it of their existence. If your weblog doesn't get listed on that site a few minutes after you update, this bookmarklet should help you show up in various new places. I've just used it for the Drupal-powered group-forming blog, and not long after it became a technoratizen in good standing.
What do you think? []  links to this post    8:13:31 PM  
Welcome, George!

I'd like to give a warm welcome to George Pór's Blog of Collective Intelligence. George has just entered the blogosphere but he's been thinking about online communities for a long time and has lots of big and deep thoughts about social evolution and emergence.
What do you think? []  links to this post    7:58:36 PM  
Conversational Terrorism

via Puzzlepieces. A quite comprehensive lexicon of underhanded ways to win arguments. An example:

"Think vs. Feel"

A person will likely be off-center of the ANALYTICAL/EMOTIVE SPECTRUM (an alternate name for this technique) in any heated exchange. By pointing out which side the other person is on, (either side will do) he/she is obliged to defend his/her temperament instead of the case at hand.

  • "Your cold, analytical approach to this issue doesn't take into account the human element."
  • "Your emotional involvement with this issue obscures your ability to see things objectively."

What do you think? []  links to this post    7:50:25 PM  
Recommender systems and the microblogosphere

Michael elaborates on Ming's call for personalized collaborative ranking. (Did you ping the LazyWeb, Ming?) I think the idea has been around in various forms for a while, under the general rubric "recommender systems". I know Epinions features a (probably nowhere documented) personalized web of trust that influences the results you get when searching for product reviews.

We want to get recommendations from people we trust, how do we implement that? The obvious way is to just read these people's blogs, but they don't cover everything we might be interested in.

Perhaps a good, simple start for ranking Web content would be a customized Technorati that restricts the blogosphere to only take into account blogs that are at most N degrees of separation away from you (link-wise), for small values of N (say, 2 or 3). Call that the microblogosphere that has you as center. I'd love to see what "interesting newcomers" would show up there for me.


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:22:20 PM  
Smart kids and the real world

I seldom link to Blogdex Top 10 pieces, but this one is just too good to miss. Paul Graham presents an insightful description of the social structure of high school, offering an explanation for why nerds have such a hard time between ages 11 and 17.

Basically, "schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one place for a certain number of hours each day". Meaninglessness ensures that life in school becomes a popularity contest, a zero-sum game where people who don't play full-time (i.e. "nerds" and "retards") finish last. Makes a lot of sense to me.

That severe disconnect between school and the real world is what I hope will ultimately kill school-as-we-know-it. In a connected world, I'm sure kids will find better ways of getting prepared for the world. With luck they'll get some help from teachers. Let them network with grownups for a change! (I know, not everyone wants to network with teenagers, but taken one at a time, in the presence of shared interests, I'm sure it can be pretty fulfilling on both ends. Look here for an inspiring start :-) )

I would take issue with how Graham depicts the "real" world, though. He seems to assume that the world that adults live in is actually pretty meaningful and not artificial. I don't know enough to be sure about this.


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:04:13 PM  


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