A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • Know what QEDWiki reminds me of? Visual Basic. And I mean that in a good way … ๐Ÿ˜‰

  • 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 … ๐Ÿ˜‰ 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.

  • Bleaahhhgh! Least inspiring Hughtrain cartoon evah!

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