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Wiktionary. William Gibson mentions the really cool Wiktionary site (”a wiki-based Open Content dictionary”; neologisms here) in a very brief interview…. [Fragments]

this is nifty.

More on Matsushita's new long-lasting e-book.

More information, and a picture, of that new e-book from Matsushita we mentioned on Friday, the one that lasts for six months on two AA batteries.
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this looks nice….

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.
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“The CompreHensive collaborativE Framework (CHEF) initiative has as its goal, the development of a flexible environment for supporting distance learning and collaborative work, and doing research on distance learning and collaborative work. This project is staffed by University of Michigan School of Information and Media Union staff.”

“We are working closely with and are contributing to the OKI reference architecture, and are collaborating with other groups interested in open source collaboration standards. Communities targeted for CHEF use include those involved in the scholarly activities of teaching, learning and research at the University of Michigan, and their students and colleagues involved in teaching, learning and research that are outside of the Michigan community.” [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]

This looks like it could be a good project to become part of….

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 Thereof
Stuart 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 takes places in large parts in other media, with the blog as startingpoint, so that the dialogue is largely hidden from view for the casual blog-reader. But Stuart certainly makes a point worth contemplating. [Ton's Interdependent thoughts]

architecturally, it has always seemed to me that the blog was more about the post, than the conversation. it really isn't focused on conversation at all, it is about putting something out, and then getting response, and then occasionally that starts a conversation, but really it lacks the fluidity necessary for a convo.

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.
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this is nifty. it would be great if they integrated a presser array so you could manipulate it with yoru finger.