Commodity Software. Dave Stultz's resignation letter, Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software, is superb [Mark Bernstein] this is interesting

Jon Udell: The Human Face of Microsoft. [Scripting News] there are good folk about in interesting places, but they always leave.

Lund University is building a Directory of Open Ac …. Lund University is building a Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) with funding from the Open Society Institute and SPARC. The first phase of the project will provide “journal level” data and searching, the second phase “article level” data and searching. The directory itself is […]

Writing More Efficient PHP. 13 Feb 2003: This tutorial, from IBM developerWorks, targets the PHP developer who already understands PHP, but either wants to write more efficient PHP code or wants to improve the performance of existing PHP applications. (Free registration required – Noel) [RootPrompt.org — Nothing but Unix] this looks like it might be […]

My Father, the Cyborg. The Soul of a New Machine is the title of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the recent proliferation of cyborgs in the humanities. Growing outside of science, and inspired by science fiction, cyborgs have invaded economics, anthropology, and even philosophy. Cyborgs are indeed taking over the academic […]

Call for Participation (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop Technological Aspects of and Frameworks for Electronic Community Support held in conjunction with the 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) Budapest, Hungary Tuesday May 20, 2003 http://is.njit.edu/vci-www2003/ We cordially invite you to participate in the (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop, to be held the first day of the […]

THE FIRST EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2003) http://minsky.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/ VENUE Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. DATE 21-26, July 2003 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Enrico Motta (Director) Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Director) Arthur Stutt (Project Co-ordinator) INTRODUCTION The OntoWeb Network Consortium (www.ontoweb.org) is pleased to announce the first European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the […]

Publishers Make Lots on Public Domain Works. Waddya know. And it's big media companies too: B&N, Penguin, Bantam Dell Publishing Group and The Modern Library (of Bertelsmann). And thanks to Sonny Bono, publishers of public domain books no longer keep track of works going into the public domain, because well, they aren't getting new titles […]

On academia. I found Tied Knowledge via the daily blogsurf (Liz had it). Seems like good stuff. I bet the average academic hates it. Hits a mite too close to home. If there’s a field of human endeavor less open to criticism, more circle-the-wagons, than academia, I haven’t yet found it. It’s… [Caveat Lector] ok, […]