Social vaporware. Bill Thompson wants a little less conversation about social software (and presumably, a little more action): This lack of awareness about what has been done before means that, by and large, the ongoing debate about social software is generally uninteresting, intellectually shallow and largely irrelevant. It is a shame, because the people having […]

Cross-platform, cross-browser XML apps. Firebird Mac running an XSLT app Let's review what's happening in this screen shot. I'm running Mozilla Firebird on my Mac. The application is a structured search of my OSCOM slides. There's no search engine beyond the browser itself, which provides the JavaScript UI, the XPath-based search, and the XSLT-driven results […]

page not found. Excellent 404 error page [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] this is a good one, he he he

PCD. Post Conference Depression. Didn't know it existed, but it does. [vog blog::vlog 2.0] yep it does, every time you manage one of these, you spend so much effort and adrenaline amongst other things, that you collapse a bit afterward.

Software Studies. The term is Lev Manovich's, but he hasn't done much to define it, at least not yet. What is software studies then? Or what is software studies to me? Software studies is what media theory becomes after the bubble bursts…. [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum] there is actually so much more before Manovich's coin of […]

well if we follow the people who came just before habermas, the dialectic of enlightenment provides for a thesis and its antithesis, and the antithesis is fascism, I'm not sure the enlightenment is, as such, the way to go…. perhaps we need a more plural set of possibilities.

Are the universities an instrument?. It is now taken for granted in the policy making culture in Australia that our higher education institutions are, and should be, an instrument for wealth creation. The purpose of deploying the instrument, say the utilitarians, is to ensure comparative or competitive advantage so as to enhance the wealth of […]

Industrial evolution. One of five industries in the throes of a tech metamorphosis, the life sciences field is hoping information technology can help it deal with an explosion of data and a rush for new pharmaceuticals. [CNET News.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] well if you look at it investment strategies at universities, […]

Do you have one minute to web-surf for the Public Domain?. Larry Lessig needs your help to preserve the Public Domain: “We have launched a petition to build support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. That act would require American copyright holders to pay $1 fifty years after a work was published. If they pay […]

Adieu. This will be my last post for a while. I've decided to take an extended break from weblogging in order to focus on other projects. I appreciate the attention and feedback my weblog entries have received over the past sixteen months–I've met some wonderful people and learned a great deal… [Jonathon Delacour] guess, i […]