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  • I see Zbigniew beat me to blogging about wiki-wednesday. That’s one of the perils of laying around in bed all morning. He’s dead right about Alan Wood’s presentation being very exciting. I’m probably even more impressed by Wood’s “Rel3” than Zby is. What most impressed me was Alan’s apparent good taste that seems to be…

  • Know what QEDWiki reminds me of? Visual Basic. And I mean that in a good way … 😉

  • QED Wiki

    IBM’s QEDWiki looks pretty nice. This is really taking wiki in the direction of application development tool that I’ve been dreaming about for ages.

  • Fairly crummy screen-cast of GeekWeaver basics (no sound, sorry) Need to find a decent screen-recording software. Anyone got any suggestions? More soon …

  • OK … everyone who’s wondering why I’ve been so quiet and apparently unproductive lately … very soft (in little more than a whisper) announcement … GeekWeaver is a mutant cross-breed of outlining, wiki-attitude, templating and some duct-tape that would like to be a programming language … tell you more soon …

  • Listen everyone, I gotta come out to you all … I am now officially an outliner. For a long time I thought that outlines, like all hierarchical documents, were limited and inferior to graph-shaped wikis. Now I get it. The point of the outliner is not the hierarachical structure as a navigation aid – free-form…

  • Sig : You talk to one person. You lunch with one purchaser. You present for one or more, same Powerpoint. Why the difference? It’s all about people and a person is singular, always.

  • David Brin has a nice post summarizing his vision for “what we need from science” : Given the daunting range of problems and opportunities that we face, I’d have to say that our most urgent scientific and technological need is to develop better methods for problem-solving. Some pieces to the puzzle are already getting attention.…

  • Q : Phil! Why have you put a Grazr widget in your gutter? A : Something’s happening. And it’s about OPML, Grazr, and widgets … 😉 Q : Oh, and I noticed you changed the template. A : Er … yeah. The look didn’t go with the widget. I wanted something that was more, I…

  • Cool video showing WikiCalc embedding YouTube. And showing several evolving lines of thought in the multiple texts being created.

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