November 13, 2005
Power Point reality check
Absolute PowerpointA very nice piece on how PowerPoint has invaded the conciousness of the world. Presents an interesting platform for further research - different styles of critical thought exhibited by groups of people who do or do not have powerpoint experience.
April 02, 2005
January 08, 2005
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
This one is everywhere, but I just don't want to loose it...Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
Social Categories
Much ado has been made of late of systems that share categories. There is the much-lauded deli.cio.us (aka: Delicious) and Flickr; there are some popping up for literary and academic citation tracking like CiteULike and connotea. There are many names for these, though "Folksonomies" seems to be catching on.
So, this brings to mind a problem I've been having with my own personal information architecture, and that is when I use my computer, a great deal of my time is spent doing three things: creating files, looking at the web, and doing E-Mail. When I do these three things, I'm forced to store and sort the information I create or view and I do a fair job of it, which makes sense, as that's more or less what I do for a living. The sad part is that I have to do it a different way for each of these tasks, even when I'm frequently doing them all as part of the same piece of research or work.
What kind of surprises me is that so many people think it's really fun to share their categories, their meandering sorting system, their mental shoebox, with others, but I seem to be the only one looking to share my own with myself.
So this made me reexamine some work I did some time ago to work through why people do this. Is it some Andy Warhol "15 minutes of fame" business, or...
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Folksonomies vs. Controled Vocabularies
Lou Rosenfeld and Clay Shirky cross pork swords over the relative merits of these two overlapping methods of classifying information.Many-to-Many: folksonomies controlled vocabularies
Where these two extremely useful concepts overlap, intersect and inform one another will be a moderately fun place to play for a little while... on an incredibly nerdy level.
November 10, 2004
Word Count -
A smashing little example of info design and etymology.WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language /
October 10, 2004
SubEthaEdit - Collaborative, real-time single document editing
SubEthaEditOK, this looks pretty cool - I haven't played with it, but it looks like an example of what *can* make the Mac platform cool...
I remember a day when Mac world would be full of these things... Hypercard hacks and the developer boothes all abuzz with cool concepts. People pushing the edge of communication. Then the web came along and cool innovation came to a halt - everyone wanted ROI and all that.
Well, I think the last few slow years will fuel a new birth of technical creativity like this little gem.
September 28, 2004
Amplify
Companion Toolbar, Blogs, Online Community and more @ Amplify.comAugust 28, 2004
Croquet Collaboration Server
Alan Kay stikes again.Croquet was built to answer a simple question. "If we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go?"
Croquet Project
