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 display.
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this is a nifty tool, i wasn't planning on using firebird, but i might have to now….

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 the term. So much more, that I'm not sure he coined it, because there has been a research center in canada doing this sort of thing from a slightly different angle for some time.

I would add to the list Bonnie Nardi's work, and all the other anthropoligists of software, there is a large body of work in relation to information technology and software in the STS literature also. All of it is fascinating… there is also my software and culture list which has been going on for years.

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 the nation vis-a-vis other nations. Things are not so cut and dried in the UK. Whether the universites are an instrument or not is still being debated in Britain. Under the Blair Government the liberal state says universities are an instrument. Thus, Charles Clarke, the UK Education Secretary, stated this position in a recent speech at University College Worcester. He says: “The other day I heard a vice-chancellor argue that the purpose of a university was the unfettered pursuit of truth and excellence. Another distinguished academic wrote a paper in which she argued that we should get back to a… [philosophy.com]

yes, but the problem is that people don't actually understand what about universities produces wealth. many universities are orienting toward the quick buck mentality instead of the growth of cultural capital, which is a slower strategy but more successful over history as technics and investment in them comes and goes, but cultural capital doesn't….

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, this becomes quite obvious…