Tibook is back, now back to blogging

Foundations and Open Information Architectures. It was good news when the Open Source Applications Foundation got a small grant from a major foundation for a… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] this is a good thing…

Conversational Blogging, or Lack ThereofStuart Hen …. Conversational Blogging, or Lack ThereofStuart Henshall adds to the discussion of blogs as facilitators of dialogue. He is the first I've seen who takes the design of the blog as a possible cause of little interaction through comment-boxes etc. Personally I still feel that the dialogue blogs foster […]

Pick-A-Prof Comes to My Campus. Pick-A-Prof has arrived at the University of Oklahoma This looks like a reasonable response to the problem of evaluations…..

PPP. Next month, I'll be visiting Maastricht for the Personal Publishing Pandemonium at Jan van Eyck Academie. [Mark Bernstein] this looks like it will be intersting

Monitors of the future. Article in Portable Design on the future of displays: Organic LED monitors, superthin displays that roll up like a sheet of paper, 3D monitors that don't require special glasses to work, and monitors that double as loudspeakers. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts] [Gizmodo] this is nifty. it would be great if they integrated […]

Alan Kay on scalable group collaboration (Open Croquet). Alan Kay showed us a pre-alpha demo of some software (called Open Croquet, I think) written in Smalltalk and Squeak. The collective collaboration of Hydra + Star Trek's Holodeck + The Matrix. It looks like what he's done is create an OS based not on applications but […]

A 15-inch LCD monitor with a little something extra on top. We're quite big on the dual-monitor setup here at Gizmodo HQ, we'd even add a third monitor if we could, but we might have to settle for the TopHead TM150, a 15-inch flat-screen LCD monitor that comes with a second, 6.4-inch LCD monitor built-into […]

The Banryu guard-robot. GK, Gizmodo's new Tokyo correspondent, managed to snap a few pics at Tokyu Hands of Sanyo's new Banryu guard-robot, which is designed to prowl around the house keeping an eye out for intruders. He says, “one of the cool things with the Banryu is that you can call it from your cellphone […]

Creative Commons Releases Hundreds of Titles Under its Founders Copyright. Creative Commons announced today the release of several hundred titles under its Founders' Copyright. The Silicon Valley nonprofit also opened the Founders' Copyright submission process to the public via its website. [Creative Commons: weblog] this is good news, I'd prefer people do a nice 5 […]