I stumbled into
this description of a digital lifestyle aggregator, courtesy of Marc Canter. He's involved in a
fascinating collaboration (I doubt that many of these people are
employees in the traditional sense -- corporate structure of the
future?) called broadband
mechanics. One of their projects is a gaming site called 1up. If it was just gaming news and
reviews (maybe even message boards), it would be boring. But the way
they've integrated social software and personal publishing for their
members is fascinating. Check out this guy’s profile
page,especially all of the links down the left side that connect
him to everyone else sharing the same interests and characteristics.
Now imagine that profile as a sort of e-portfolio, containing most of
the stuff you cared about, things you were thinking about, connecting
you to everyone else who wanted to learn the same things, helping you
find the information and resources that would help you learn...
Via Seb,
who could have combined the previous post with this fascinating
description of a synchron
icity engine:
"Something needs to capture way more
channels of information about you than you normally bother paying
conscious attention to. At least not at the same time. What people
have been saying around you recently; what clothes you're wearing;
what's on your bookshelf; all the people you know; all the subjects
you're interested in; all the projects you're working on. And
something needs to be matching all these items with other people's
items, and items in your surroundings, as a background
process."
New Year, new discoveries01/04/2005 12:30 AM "...an Applescript that scales down images dropped on it, and sticks
them on the end of a new message in Apple Mail, all ready for emailing
to froonds and fimilies. (There are some other scripts available from
the site; readers who speak German, or are interested enough to run
the page through the Babelfish will no doubt discover more interesting
stuff.)"
The Drift Table
The Drift Table01/29/2004 10:58 AM We're not exactly sure what the point is except to do something
unusual and different involving technology and geography, but The
Drift Table is...
DrIFT 2.0.4 (Stable)
DrIFT 2.0.4 (Stable)06/01/2004 02:07 PM A type sensitive preprocessor for Haskell.
Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills
Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills05/15/2004 06:56 PM Fitcommerce-5 hours ago ... You can get automatic alerts from Google
News by asking for updates from FitCommerce.com or about specific
fitness and wellness topics. ...
NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools
that together make discovery possible. That's why they say NSF is
"where discoveries begin." Learn about many of the advances made
possible with NSF support in "Discoveries." If you're looking for a
specific discovery, please use their discovery search page. Other
features of their Web site also provide information about research
results. NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education
and technology helps to create knowledge and sustain prosperity. Read
about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and
more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF
support. This has been added to Research Resources
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After the Wall of Water, Only Grim Discoveries
After the Wall of Water, Only Grim Discoveries12/27/2004 11:15 PM In Cuddalore, India, a wiry gravedigger had no time to waste, no
sentiment to spare: just a mass grave for victims, and mass grief.
Stocks Drift Lower Before More 2Q Reports (AP)07/15/2004 06:48 AM AP - U.S. Stock futures were modestly lower early Thursday as
investors await the next wave of second-quarter reports and a heavy
schedule of economic reports.
Rorke's Drift heroes remembered
Rorke's Drift heroes remembered01/23/2004 02:34 AM The 125th anniversary of one of the most celebrated moments in Welsh
military history the Battle of Rourke's Drift - is commemorated.
Adopt a Journalist in Campaign 2004: The Drift of a Suggestion
Adopt a Journalist in Campaign 2004: The Drift of a Suggestion01/10/2004 06:44 PM Over the holidays, an idea gained Net traction: webloggers "adopting"
a campaign reporter. That means you monitor and collect all the
reporter's work, and then... And then what? Follow the turns as the
suggestion is taken up.
Is Continental Crazy?
Is Continental Crazy?12/30/2004 04:29 PM The airline is on track to lose $200 million during the year. How
about spending $1 billion more?
Continental Amenities
Continental Amenities07/12/2004 12:42 PM Continental bucks the for-fee airport/airline trend and offers free
Wi-Fi in all of its U.S. Presidents Clubs: Continental is almost
certainly taking advantage of the recent FCC clarification that allows
the unfettered use of unlicensed spectrum without a landlord's
oversight. Delta, American, and United all use T-Mobile's HotSpot
service in their club lounges. Chicago is Continental's one exception:
it shares a lounge with Northwest....
PressThink: Adopt a Campaign Journalist in 2004: The Drift of a Suggestion
The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It?
The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It?04/13/2005 03:57 AM Eleven opinion polls in France in the last month have indicated that
the French are poised to vote no in the national referendum on
Europe's first constitution.
Stock markets drift on mixed U.S. employment data for August, Intel report
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur06/02/2004 06:35 PM Source: SearchDay - Why would Yahoo and other search engines do paid
inclusion? Money is a big reason -- the ability to earn off what
otherwise would be free listings. But paid inclusion involves a gamble
that relevancy won't be...
A Dinosaur Theory for the Birds
A Dinosaur Theory for the Birds04/16/2005 04:53 AM Intact eggs discovered inside a dinosaur shed new light on
reproductive biology and bolster the argument that birds evolved from
dinosaurs.
Take me to the dinosaur Google place04/08/2005 12:19 PM Xeni Jardin:
This Minneapolis Star-Trib article explores the challenge for
libraries of how to serve 'millennials' -- the current crop of young
people, who are more familar with search engines than the Dewey
Decimal System.
There they were, 11 college students, lined up like some alien species
before a curious group of about 50 college and university librarians.
One University of Minnesota student had a bagful of electronics with
him: iPod, PalmPilot, cell phone. He was bright, opinionated,
well-spoken. And when was the last time he was in the U's library?
"Last year," he said. The collective intake of breath nearly turned
the room into a vacuum. What's a university librarian to do with this
generation of college students?
In one of the kickoff sessions of the national conference of the
Association of College and Research Libraries, the group spent seven
hours Thursday at the Minneapolis Convention Center puzzling over the
habits of the so-called millennial generation. Confident,
sophisticated, tolerant and practical, they are "Internet natives" who
are more likely to use Google to research a paper than go to the
library. Accustomed to getting information at the click of a mouse
button, they are impatient with the slower, word-based searches and
single-use computers that many libraries use.
New Dinosaur Stumps Scientists05/21/2004 05:31 AM A 50-foot-long sauropod recently unearthed in southern Montana has a
mysterious second hole in its skull that leaves researchers baffled.
Dinosaur Dung Display a Big Hit at Museum (AP)03/29/2005 08:55 PM AP - A display of dinosaur dung is turning out to be the big draw at a
local museum. Frank Callahan, the past president of the Roxy Ann Gem
& Mineral Society which owns and operates the Crater Rock Museum
housing the fossilized feces, suggests it be labeled "coprolite."
Geek Trivia: A dinosaur (Easter) egg03/27/2005 06:20 PM Geek Trivia: A dinosaur (Easter) egg “…when IBM threw its
immense weight into the home-computing ring with the debut of the
first IBM Personal Computer, Big Blue also introduced the Purple
Book—beginning a kind of open source movement arguably more
influential than even the later arrival of Linux. Never heard of the
Purple Book? Perhaps you know it better by a more formal name: the IBM
PC Technical Reference Manual…. …the Purple Book
didn’t necessarily…
Seb Paquet pointed me to