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This looks to be a very interesting resource.
Redland RSS 1.0 Validator and Viewer
Enter the address of an RSS 1.0 feed into the following form and it will be validated and formatted for display.
a href="http://www.grantbow.com/groupware.html">Grant Bowman's Groupware list
This list is focused on open source software projects relating to groupware and collaborative activity
Grant has been collecting this info since 2001. The list includes name of project/ app along with description, status, and last time updated. A useful index, well worth time to browse.
Capitol Hill Blue: Role reversal: Bush wants war, Pentagon urges caution
"We have a dangerous role reversal here" one Pentagon source tells Capitol Hill Blue. "The civilians [nb: rumsfeld and regime] are urging war and the uniformed officers are urging caution."
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An angry Rumsfeld, who backs Bush without question, is said to have told the Joint Chiefs to get in line or find other jobs. Bush is also said to be "extremely angry" at what he perceives as growing Pentagon opposition to his role as Commander in Chief.
"The President considers this nation to be at war," a White House source says," and, as such, considers any opposition to his policies to be no less than an act of treason."
Daily Breeze - Doubting (Helen) Thomas offers her press veteran's take on state of presidency
"... She seemed to have sympathy and affection for everyone but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a wave of 9-11 fear %u2014 fear of looking unpatriotic, fear of asking questions, just fear. %u201CWe have,%u201D she said, %u201Clost our way.%u201D
Thomas believes we have chosen to promote democracy with bombs instead of largess while Congress %u201Cdefaults,%u201D Democrats cower and a president controls all three branches of government in the name of corporations and the religious right.
As she signed my program, I joked, "You sound worried."
"This is the worst president ever," she said. "He is the worst president in all of American history."
The woman who has known eight of them wasn't joking. ..."
"... It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs. ..."
Here's a nifty little web-app utility that helps you identify 5 color patches that work with one you choose for a color theme on a web site.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US begins secret talks to secure 's oilfields
"... has the second biggest known oil reserves in the world producing, in their current run-down state, about 1.5m barrels a day. But experts contacted by the Guardian predict this could rise to 6m barrels a day within five years with the right investment and control. ..."
The Open Direcotry Project page for RSS resources. Quite extensive with sub-directories for AutoDiscovery, Directories, News Readers, Specifications, Tutorials, and Validators.
It's possible to count the number of Trackbacks associated with a link.
"... Use this service to create, modify and register your RSS news channel(s). Please register your UK channels! UKOLN are particularly keen to maintain a directory of RSS channels in the UK HE/FE community, the UK cultural sector (galleries, libraries and museums) and in related organisations. ..."
I'm wondering how to get more outa this blog. So, looking into RSS and TrackBack and ping'ing and such. We'll see. If you all have any reading suggestions, let me know.
"... In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, parse, publish, and syndicate your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of the two most popular varieties of RSS for dynamic publishing. ..."
This site is run by the State of Utah, so that should say something.
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
"... This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the 'More Information about RSS' section. ..."
"... Textpattern is a publishing system designed for those who want to write for the web. Its bells and whistles are many, but it is above all very simple to use. Little knowledge of internet technology is required to install and use it; the production of valid, standards-compliant web pages is basic to its operation. ..."
Column Two
News and opinion on all things KM & CM
This site was "recommended" by Recommended Reading. I plugged in the InfoArk url and it popped up a list of sites related by way of the urls on the page. Most interesting.
"... Pointers and thoughts on the evolution of knowledge sharing and scholarly communication, collected by Sebastien Paquet ..."
Seems Seb said there'd be a slow down in posts, but for me there's all the olde stuff to check out.
"... This page displays the last 200 TrackBack pings sent to the site by weblog authors writing about KM. Anyone with the ability is welcome to send their on-topic pings. See the sidebar for details on how to actually do so. ..."
Synesthesia : Peer Production, the Creative Commons and NLP / NS
"... A long follow up to the previous article, linking ideas from Open Source and Creative Commons to development of the fields of NLP and Neuro-Semantics. ..."
there is a reason I came to this point, but I can't recall right now. err, maybe I can explain more later....
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
"... ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. No firm rules exist on the types of work that can be submitted; if you think it's a robot and you think it's making art, then it's an art-making robot. About fifteen submissions will be selected for participation in the show. The show will run for two days (saturday and sunday) with all artists in attendance. Selected works will remain installed during the rest of the week as part of EYEBEAM's summer robotics festivities.
The first ArtBots show took place in May, 2002, and included the work of ten artists and groups. Nearly six hundred people visited the show during its one day run, and the show received very positive coverage in many print and online publications in the USA and internationally, including The New York Times, TimeOutNY, BoingBoing.net, and the NASA's Cool Robot of the Week site. You can access extensive documentation of the show and participants at: http://artbots.org/2002 ..."
Inference Group: Dasher Project: How does Dasher work?
"... Dasher is a zooming interface. You point where you want to go, and the display zooms in wherever you point. The world into which you are zooming is painted with letters, so that any point you zoom in on corresponds to a piece of text. The more you zoom in, the longer the piece of text you have written. You choose what you write by choosing where to zoom. ..."
"... Design & Discussion on Computer Mediated Deliberation - Collaboration
XRepublic is a model of an interactive web conferencing system which allows extensive annotation and voting on statements presented by its membership. It can be thought of as a virtual parliament. ..."
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Survival guide 2003:
"... Today Online offers its survival guide for 2003: the 25 technologies and notions we think hold most promise over the next year. From the evolutionary to the revolutionary, the trivial to the very serious, these are 25 of the trends we'll be watching closely over the next 12 months. ..."
"... Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms below. ..."
Visualization of Web Based Information and Sense Making by James A. Levin & Daniel A. Kauwell
"... To help people make sense of this overload of information, we have developed a heuristic-based approach to the visualization and sense making of information returned by a web search. With our software tool, a user can more easily "see" the information space returned by a web search, view more easily how the sites and the documents within the sites are related to each other, and manipulate that information into a form more useful to the user. ..."
Dan gave me a couple demo's of this project early on. I like the interface and information presentation in the VisIT tool better than the TouchGraph Google Browser.
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01
Here's a visualization tool for Google. I just discovered it, haven't worked with it much. More later.
Salon 21st | Let's Get This Straight: From Agenda to Zoot
"... Readers fill us in on personal information software -- the good, the bad and the discontinued. ..."
Looks like an interesting summary of a bunch of packages that I've known of for a while. As the author says,
"...What's missing is any kind of central repository of information. (Yahoo's listing is a start, but it's woefully inadequate.) I'd like to at least begin to remedy that here, by pooling readers' ideas with links to software sites for personal information management junkies. ..."
"... This workshop explores the pedagogy of mobile, wireless computing. As college campuses set up wireless networks, and the number and variety of networked devices increase, how can we best teach and learn in this environment? ..."
There's a page with links to various case studies of how a number of campuses are using wireless
Here are some pics of rovOR posted at the Disco Web site. The first one is an example of how four wheel drive can help slip into abandoned parking spots in an other wise crowded DC Metro parking lot. The other three were taken Sunday as I left Wintergreen (first two at Reed's Gap) and finally arrived with ice encrusted rovOR in Falls Church. It was snowing the entire 4.5 hours of this return trip. Amazing!
"... IAwiki is a collaborative discussion space for the topic of InformationArchitecture. Anyone can contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to jump thru ... just click the "Edit This Page" link at the bottom of any page. ..."
"... IAwiki is a collaborative discussion space for the topic of InformationArchitecture. Anyone can contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to jump thru ... just click the "Edit This Page" link at the bottom of any page. ..."
"... The World-Wide Web is human stigmergy. The web and it's ability to let anyone read anything and also to write back to that environment allows stigmeric communication between humans. Some of the most powerful forces on the web today, Google and weblogs are fundamentally driven by stigmeric communication and their behaviour follows similar natural systems like Ant Trails and Nest Building that are accomplished using stigmergy. The web is new. In the context of written human history is barely a blink of an eye. Yet as new as the web is, it is already showing it's ability to support complex human interactions that mimic natural systems use of stigmergy. And were just getting started... ..."
Now that you've read the conclusion, have a look at the whole article. ;-)
homeophyto.net : the monthly magazine of homeopathy, herbal medicine and trace-therapy on the web.
Since last November I've been taking homeopathic remedies for various ailments. Most interesting is how well they seem to be working especially for my aching knees.
This site is one of many. I'll be pointing to some others here in a bit.
"... The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) is an international trade and standards organization. Our members consist of hardware and software companies, publishers, authors, users of electronic books, and related organizations whose common goals are to establish specifications and standards for electronic publishing. The Forum’s work will foster the development of applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and, most importantly, consumers. ..."
From Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
"... Man, this is disappointing. Every US resident who bought a CD in the US between 1995 and 2000 is entitled to up to $20 from the music cartel as part of a court-mandated settlement over the labels' illegal price-fixing, which is one way that the music industry has ripped off the public.
All you need to do is sign up at this site, and the RIAA will mail you a check. If so many people sign up that the settlement ends up getting spread too thin, the RIAA will mail charitable organizations the checks instead. You can't lose! ..."
I've added some new entries in the KM category. These items were suggested during a discussion of the sorts of tools that might be used to do large scale searches across many disparate sources --- such as intended by the current regime in its alleged wars against a variety of things. These tools might have useful application in less threatening environments too.
Pathfinder Intelligence Analysis Tools
"... Pathfinder is a comprehensive analytical tool set for data mining and intelligence analysis of very large text databases, applicable to business and government intelligence requirements ..."
Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture, JIVA
"... The focus of the Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture, JIVA, is the modernization of intelligence analytical processes and methodologies. It will provide the Defense Intelligence Community's all-source analytical workforce the cognitive tools, automated capabilities, and training necessary to ensure successful mission accomplishment in tomorrow's high "operational tempo," information-rich environment. Specifically, JIVA focuses on the functions associated with the Analysis, Production, and Dissemination phases of the Intelligence Cycle. This includes cognitive analytical methods and procedures as well as the administrative processes. JIVA also addresses the technical, automation, and related systems and support required for the processing of information and the dissemination of intelligence. Equally important, JIVA includes the training required to operate in a virtual environment. ..."
WisdomBuilder's products
"... consist of comprehensive, powerful and yet easy to use integrated Internet tools that support the entire information collection and analysis process. WisdomBuilders%u2019 proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) engines and powerful information analysis and data visualization features provide a unique capability for finding, analyzing and displaying complex data relationships and instantly revealing relevancy and hidden relationships among collected data. ..."
Analyst's Notebook Product Information Page
"... The Analyst's Notebook is the world's leading visual investigative analysis software, used in 1200 organizations world-wide. It assists investigators by uncovering, interpreting, and displaying complex information in easily-understood chart form. ..."
Fine Art Photographers Pinhole Photography
here is a gallery of images captured on sheets of photographic paper that were folded into pinhole cameras. quite an amazing collection of images!
Bobbing Through Portugal on Boat Made of Wine Corks
"... This summer, John Pollack and Garth Goldstein took an old trade (shipbuilding), a basic principle (buoyancy), and created an ingenious, two-ton, 27-foot craft made of (what else) 165,321 corks. Confident that their vessel was of sound design, the two set sail from the northern Portuguese city of Barca d'Alva, near the Spanish border, where hundreds of Portuguese gathered to watch them embark upon an improbable, 17-day journey on the Douro River. ..."
Sounds like a great way to travel.