“Melancholy Elephants” provides powerful insight into the relation between an intellectual commons, the creation of news works of art, and the potential unintended consequences of perpetual copyright. It turns out that I’ve pointed to this story in the early days of this blog. It’s well worth reading again.
Spider Robinson’s Hugo-winning “Melancholy Elephants” online
Cory Doctorow: Spider [...]
I won’t be traveling to NYC for the Enterprise 2.0 RAVE after all. They’ve decided to go virtual instead.
The Enterprise 2.0 RAVE goes virtual!Date May 8, 2007
The Enterprise 2.0 RAVE, which was originally planned as a physical event to take place in NYC has gone virtual and will now consist of a series of web [...]
Francois has put together an online survey to generate some data on what organizations are currently doing about Enterprise 2.0.
What is the state of the market for Enterprise 2.0 Tools?
Are you in the process of deploying Enterprise 2.0 Tools or thinking of doing it? Who in your organization is involved? What do you [...]
One of the basic advantages of Enterprise 2.0 technologies is that work gets divvied up among your social network and you can often take advantage of situations such as this, where Bill Ives has already summarized information that I also wanted to pass along. I’m looking forward to linking up with Bill and a great [...]
I just placed my order for Dave Weinberger’s newest book Everything is Miscellaneous. You know it will be worth it. Of course, there is also an excellent blog to accompany the book.
Book launch at the Berkman on Monday
The Berkman Center is holding a launch party for Everything Is Miscellaneous on April 30. I’ll give [...]
This is making the rounds. It is excellent and fun little explanation of one of the important underlying components of our Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 world.
Video: RSS in Plain English
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We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want [...]
Yes indeed.
The ultimate tool-kit
You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape.
If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD-40.
If it moves and shouldn’t, use the duct tape.
Via Ming
Via Euan Semple
Who knew you could be intentionally funny with PowerPoint?
PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying
PowerPoint is a great tool for displaying visuals that enhance, illustrate, and generally magnify your narrative. It’s been used effectively for years by millions of professionals from such disciplines as academia, engineering, medicine, business, education, government (mostly [...]
Here’s something that Jack Vinson might want to point his students at.
23 Learning 2.0 Things
Numerous sites have linked to this, but it’s worth highlighting - 23 Learning 2.0 Things. Once you’ve completed the list, you will be cool.
Ed Yourdon has been periodically sharing a mindmap he has been maintaining on Web 2.0 technologies, players, and issues. Worth some time to see how he’s organizing and thinking about the data out there. Ed’s blog, The Yourdon Report, is also worth paying attention to if you are interested in technology inside organizations.
Web 2.0 mind-map, version [...]
