CHEF Project: The Comprehensive Collaborative Framework Initiative, Univ. of Mich.. This announcement about the CHEF Project appeared in the April 8, 2003 issue of the Distance Educator Daily News, (http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/?name=News&file=article&sid=8805). The CHEF Project is one more important development in steps toward shared, open-source education tools. _______ “The CompreHensive collaborativE Framework (CHEF) initiative has as its […]

always like these linux kernel bits An interesting linux-kernel thread on why there will never be open source drivers for non-obsolete 802.11 cards. [Hack the Planet]

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 […]