Dimdim has been acquired by Salesforce.com

The adversarial viewpoint has a validity in proportion to the number of people subscribing to it. For those of us who would like to deemphasize the adversarial viewpoint, what’s unclear is: how?

One concrete thing is: use Arxiv. For a long time, physicists have adopted an Arxiv-first philosophy, which I’ve come to respect. Arxiv functions as a universal timestamp which decreases the power of an adversarial reviewer. Essentially, you avoid giving away the power to muddy the track of invention. I’m expecting to use Arxiv for essentially all my past-but-unpublished and future papers.

This was a huge improvement to our design session workflow. In one fell swoop, Wolfgang managed to chop out all the shortcomings of image handling in iChat by using Skitch now.

So from a designer’s point of view, how’s this all work? Well, Wolfgang created a nice screencast to step you through the process…

ABSTRACT. The symbol-based, correspondence epistemology used in AI is contrasted with the constructivist, coherence epistemology promoted by cybernetics. The latter leads to bootstrapping knowledge representations, in which different parts of the cognitive system mutually support each other. Gordon Pask's entailment meshes and their implementation in the ThoughtSticker program are reviewed as a basic application of this methodology. Entailment meshes are then extended to entailment nets: directed graph representations governed by the "bootstrapping axiom", determining which concepts are to be distinguished or merged. This allows a constant restructuring and elicitation of the conceptual network. Semantic networks and frame-like representations with inheritance can be expressed in this very general scheme by introducing a basic ontology of node and link types. Entailment nets are then generalized to associative nets characterized by weighted links.

The advent of 21st century personal communications devices and services, particularly camera phones with GPS capability, GPS devices in your car, P2P software such as mesh networking, or social networking services, mean that it’s now feasible to have two-way sharing of real-time, location-based information that could save your life in a crisis.You won’t find these tips about how to capitalize on those devices and applications on Ready.gov, or other federal, state, and/or local preparedness sites. In some cases it’s because the services described below are private sector ones that government agencies can’t endorse.

The District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) which is responsible for DC technology infrustructure and provides a Data Catalog, which provides real-time data from multiple agencies to citizens - a catalyst ensuring agencies operate as more responsive, better performing organizations. Apps for Democracy participants will compete to visualize this data in a manner that is most useful for all.

We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California. We are located in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.

Collaboration technologies and tools are the most important current developments in legal technology and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. During this session, the speakers discuss collaboration technologies for law firms, review tools and explore alternative platforms.

This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomen

salesforce on the mac, tools. wondering if I should use the contact-sync tool, though I worry about mushing in personal contacts

Librarything has cataloged Thomas Jefferson's library.

Michael Goodchild, a professor of Geography at UC Santa Barbara, explores the historical and current trends of collaborative geographic data creation in what he terms “volunteered geography” in an article published in GeoJournal.

A list of books that MAY be of use to librarians undertaking qualitative research projects.

Two-hour interactive workshop to learn how Google Apps can transform how your organization collaborates and communicates featuring Scott Johnston from Google in Mountain View.

scientific communication is a different beast than normal human communication. Scientists talk to their friends, but when talking to people they don’t know, it’s much more formal. They use communication to spec theories and to claim ground as theirs.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and

If you’d like to try importing from GMail, Twitter, a local vCard file or using a contact list from a site supporting the HCard/XFN microformats, please try out these new capabilities and send us feedback.

The internet is replete with sites that post content optimised purely to drive ad traffic rather than having any value of its own. The internet marketing community even has a term for them: made for Adsense (MFA). But the value of online content is a subj

Who controls higher education? Henry A. Giroux argues in his new book that academe has ceded too much power to the worlds of business and the military. In The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Paradigm), he ou

The pat answer is to 'break up into small groups', using some organizing principle to do so like Open Space (where people stand and propose discussion topics, are assigned a place and time-slot, and then attendees sign up for the ones that appeal to t

The IC² Institute is the central coordinator for the International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies (CoLab@UT-Austin), a five-year research collaboration with Portugal.

looks interesting, worth a try

I study how designers collaborate in order to improve design processes and tools. Collaborative design is a complex activity that requires coordination, the use of shared representations, and joint learning. The challenge of working collaboratively is eve

Not every type of software business can easily "go Bedouin" and neo-Bedouinism need not be absolute. Companies that sell "enterprise application software", for example, seem to require significant infrastructure solely for the purpose of suitably impressi

This week, IdeaCast producer Steve Singer talks with Don Tapscott, co-author, with Anthony D. Williams, of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

communications and technologies conference proceedings online free under creative commons license, thanks dan cooney

stowe, you are as always on target. noticing at the moment the difference between basecamp (all-one or none!) and twitter (everyone is the center of their own universe).

i want a morning to read this again, or maybe it should be read out loud (hm, record it for assistive media? that would be really useful)

todo: set up michigan chapter

via kevin jones of xigi

project from cam barrett

"petabyte age"

"access to the wifi network is free from the yellow chair"

The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

this way I can happily read, tag, and return books and not fear losing them.

massively multiplayer online chat ,using skype

Occasional thoughts about education, teaching, learning, & the 21st century from David Warlick

netsquared conference for 2006 in San Jose, CA on the Cisco campus.

quotes a person on the Ann Arbor campus, worth a further investigation

Jim writes about new forms of human gathering that don't depend so much on The Planning Committee

bill seitz review of the conference

one each of all the hot items on the net. time for a "web 2.0 purity test" to see how you are doing

how we work

using a wiki for collaborative development

global view / good current tsunami relief news

label images, to aid in retrieval, as a game; as seen in a May 05 2006 talk by Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon at UM School of Information.