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CMS Watch releases 8th Edition of The CMS Report
CMS Watch has just released the 8th Edition of the highly-regarded The CMS Report. To quote: In this version, we add coverage of OpenCms, Plone, CoreMedia, and Synkron, as well as substantially update the analysis of Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum, Stellent,... From
Column Two on August 27, 2005 at 10:47 p.m..
Usability@90mph
Paul F. Marty and Michael B. Twidale introduce the concept of Usability@90mph, a high-speed method for demonstrating usability testing. To quote: This article documents the authors' attempt to develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method for demonstrating user testing to... From
Column Two on August 27, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Blog problems
Apologies to my regular readers. I've been having some technical problems with my blog over the last week or so, which has prevented me from publishing new entries. I've just restored a backup, and have just reposted entries to catch... From
Column Two on August 27, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Getting IA Done, Part II
Joshua Kaufman has written another article on tips and tricks for getting IA done. To quote: Back in June, I presented my best advice in Getting IA Done, Part I. At the end of the article, I asked Digital Web... From
Column Two on August 27, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..
Invitation to ''tea''
I should post more often. Otherwise I might become a ''
has-Blogged.'' LOL. I don't think of myself as a ''hasBlogged.'' Not quite yet. I'm just not a techie (whatever that word means). Lots of blogging educators post about the latest and greatest tech tool and the latest and greatest revolutionary implications of the latest and greatest tech tool. They are techies (whatever that word means). They like the details and the secrets. Yawn. Here's an analogy. I From
homoLudens III on August 27, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..
Organized knowledge no more
Mortimer Adler was the person behind the Great Books, the Encyclopedia Britannica's Propaedia, and other attempts to synthesize all knowledge. In 1986, he wrote A Guidebook to Learning about how to organize knowledge. After surveying a couple of thousand years of attempts to organize knowledge, he ends Section Three with these words: If any light can be thrown on the problem of how to organize knowledge in the twentieth century—how to order and relate its parts of branches—it must come from philosophy; and it must do so in a manner that accords to some extent with the cultural From
Joho the Blog on August 27, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..
Three technology trends to watch
To watch: web 2.0, textbooks and ebooks, and open source software. Wish I had written this. Now I’ll be reading XplanaZine regularly. XplanaZine: Back to School: Three Technology Trends to Watch Written by Rob Reynolds on August 22, 2005 in FutureMeter There is always a flurry of activity and renewed interest in technology as schools begin to open [...] From
Martindale Matrix on August 27, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Who’s responsible for rising textbook prices?
Good question. Commentary from Rob Reynolds and Susan Smith Nash about the GAO report. XplanaZine: Who’s Responsible for Rising Textbook Prices? Written by Rob Reynolds on August 25, 2005 in Radio Email this Article (This is a text summary of the He Said She Said podcast from August 25, 2005. This is a bi-weekly podcast that deals with a [...] From
Martindale Matrix on August 27, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Bush's world
Bush today: "What is important is that Iraqis are now addressing these issues through debate and discussion, not at the barrel of a gun." Reueters today: QAIM - Two Sunni Arab tribes, one loyal to al Qaeda and the other to the government, clashed near Qaim in western Iraq on Friday and Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, local clerics and hospital officials said. KIRKUK - An Iraqi army officer was assassinated by gunmen near his home in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. MOSUL - U.S forces killed two insurgents in the northern Iraqi... From
Joho the Blog on August 27, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
FireAnt and LookLeap
I ended up spending a fair amount of time with Josh Kinberg at foo camp. His FireANT — at the attractive URL http://www.AntiSnotTV.net/— aggregates and plays video feeds quite nicely. It looks highly useful, even in beta. Glenn Fleishman has started using LookLeap instead of TinyUrl (one of my favorites) because he finds it "a little more transparent" because LookLeap lets you look up the shortened urls to see where they take you. In fact, simply adding "/look" to LookLeap's short url takes you to a page that tells you where you're going. Plus, the domains are human-reada From
Joho the Blog on August 27, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
No tit for American imperialist's tat
In a move that David Isenberg characterizes as turning the other cheek, Hugo Chavez has responded to Pat "Crazy Ass" Robertson's call for his assassination by offering to sell gasoline and heating fuel at bargain prices to poor communities in the U.S. Oddly (?), this story is not being widely picked up. There are only eight hits on Google News for chavez robertson "poor communities", although two of them are Bloomberg and Fox. [Technorati tags: venezuela PatRobertson]... From
Joho the Blog on August 27, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..
Sorting is hard
According to a front page story by Kirk Johnson in the NY Times, the Denver airport is giving up on its dream of automatically sorting and mangling, um, managing luggage. Why the front page? Apparently because the story illuminates some important themes. Even before Johnson gets to the appealing Rube Goldberg elements of the system, he points to a more difficult and more significant problem: Complex, centrally managed systems don't work so well: Back then, the big-brained mainframe doing it all from command central was the model of high tech. Today the very idea of it sounds like a cold-w From
Joho the Blog on August 27, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Thin skin will help robots 'feel' - BBC
The "skin" can sense temperature and pressure simultaneously. Japanese researchers have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch. The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another From
Techno-News Blog on August 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Google Gets Better. What's Up With That? - New York Times
Ever heard the old joke about the two psychiatrists who pass in a hallway? One says, "Hello there." The other thinks, "I wonder what he meant by that?" In high-tech circles, that's pretty much what people are saying about Google these days. If you hadn't From
Techno-News Blog on August 27, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Earth: It's a Ball of Confusion
Researchers confirm what they've believed for some time now: that the Earth's iron core spins a skosh faster than the rest of the planet. Not that you'd notice, or anything. From
Wired News on August 27, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..
NSF Preps New, Improved Internet
A bold initiative lays the groundwork for a better-than-ever network with beefed-up security and blanket support for wireless devices. By Mark Baard. From
Wired News on August 27, 2005 at 6:45 a.m..
Digital work style: The new world of work (white paper)
Spent some time digging out MSFT white paper referred in one of internal presentation - funny enough I had to use a combination of intranet search and Google to find out the exact title, if it was public (
yes) and exact location... I guess Microsoft could do a better job of publicising resources that suppose to influence customers' mindset :))) Anyway, the while paper -
Digit From Mathemagenic on August 27, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..
Just an observation
Mike Torres:Necessary disclaimer before the rant: These are my words. I am not speaking for the 60,000 people at Microsoft. Please do not attribute my words to Microsoft, the MSN Spaces team, MSN, or any such thing. I work for Microsoft so that may be hard. But please try. [Continues with notes on
Google Talk] From
Mathemagenic on August 27, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..
Studying weblogs at Microsoft: start from Mini
If for whatever reasons you have to understand Microsoft culture start from reading
Mini-Microsoft. I didn't know about it till someone mentioned it in one of the interviews I did with Microsoft bloggers, but since then it became a very useful resource to understand how things work inside the company. It's anonymous, sharp and full of love, frustration and desire for change. It's full of details, stories and great conversations in the comments - similar to those that you might hear if you manage to get in From
Mathemagenic on August 27, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..
Universidad Perú
For those who read Spanish, a glimpse of
Universidad Perú. I can't quite figure out what to make of the dotcom domain name, but the
writers announce that they are a group of young people who have sought better information about educational opportunities and have chosen to share rather than hoard their discoveries. There are at least... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on August 27, 2005 at 12:46 a.m..