04 February 2003

Groove 2.5 News.Com: "Groove Networks on Tuesday released a revamped version of its collaboration software that ties the company closer to Microsoft and introduces compliance with Web services." [Scripting News] 11:56:11 PM     My Weblog is in the Highlands Today I'm making it my mission to mention weblogs to some key people in the Highlands and Islands ... hey Jim come on in the water's lovely! This is the New New Journalism!! We need to read your writing ... Can weblogs make the Highlands and Islands a better place? Yeah I would say so. because communicating is what we need to do, as Malky would say because official messages are so dry - see Mysterian, see HIE, see Comhairle nan Eilean, see Amec - all dry because official messages are only a fraction of the real story because language is generative: we can say something that has never been said before and have it understood.  We can create new expressions to relate to new ideas because we need to discuss things - is A Pattern Language an ur-text for the Highlands and Islands? a must read for everyone who plans? An ordinary language like English is a system which allows us to create an infinite variety of one dimensional combinations of words, called sentences. ... A pattern language is a system which allows its users to create an infinite variety of those three dimensional combinations of patterns which we call buildings, gardens, towns. Christopher Alexander because we're connected by this mesh   12:58:55 PM     We Read You KC Roscoe, the Groovy polar bear. I just noticed that KC Bolton picked up his weblog in which he mainly writes about Groove and the medical industry. I particularly liked the following story :-) I have been using Groove for some time now and try to think of creative ways to implement the program.  One of my ideas will probably never amount to anything but it sure has been a hoot.  Groove as a platform to tell a story in serial format. I have wonderful nieces and nephews, God has certainly blessed me in that area.  Well, my brother-in-law is a consistent Groove user and has started sending Groove voice mails with my niece sending us messages professing her love.  Very cute.  To do something back for her I have created a story about a polar bear who dreams of warm weather (hey, we ALL dream of it in Interior Alaska!).  She now can't wait for each week's installment of the story. With Groove I can make a story come alive by adding links to photos in the Pictures tools, sound files in the Files tool and so on.  The base tool used is Notepad which allows me to publish a chapter per page.  I also created an identity for the polar bear (Roscoe) who is the manager of the space.  My niece can chat real-time with Roscoe and ask him questions. Kind of silly but really neat.  Roscoe is now getting more voice mail than I am!  And I am having a great time doing this.  The kicker is that it really only takes me about 20 minutes or so to crank out a chapter and yet the benefits are lasting. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] 12:44:15 PM     The Old Folks at Home Private homes are nano-venues for e-folkies. Folk-music has found a renaissaince is the most nano of micro-venues: people's living rooms, promoted by listservs. Concert-goers bring the chips, dip and beer. A basket is set out for the suggested $10 to $12 donation for the musicians, and the living room, dining room and family room are filled with people wanting to hear folk music. With few venues willing to hire folk acts and few middle-class suburbanites willing to make the schlep downtown, search out parking and elbow other patrons to get the bartender's attention, folk house concerts are quietly spreading like wildfire with the help of e-mail and Internet advertising. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 12:40:19 PM     New Journalism Hunter S. Thompson. The godfather of gonzo says 9/11 caused a "nationwide nervous breakdown" -- and let the Bush crowd loot the country and savage American democracy. [Salon.com] 12:38:18 PM

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