Open Journal Montreal

Thanks to Alex Yarrow for sharing her conference notes! Went to this great session at Ontario Library Ass’n conference about e-IFL FOSS. Thought you might be interested. Here are my notes: OK – what is eIFL-FOSS? Electronic Information for Libraries: Free and Open Source Software. From their website: “eIFL-FOSS advocates free and open source software [...]

I’ve had the Costory site open as a tab for way too many days, even weeks now, trying to figure out what and how to blog about it. Costory is a collaborative story space, a tool for perpetual group authorship of limitless story projects, run on Mediawiki, like the Wikipedia. It’s a conundrum because the [...]

WikiSym 2007 2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century October 21-23, 2007 Palais des Congres de Montral Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ ———————————————————————– Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21 through 23 in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec. **Deadline for early [...]

Much like my thesis actually, only with more editorializing, and Singularity talk, and is pleasantly shorter. Comes to me from here but was written by this gent. To put it bluntly, software, really like all technologies, is inherently political. Even the most disruptive technologies, the innovations and ideas that can utterly transform society, carry with [...]

Let’s think about Kiva for a second, ok? Kiva- the micro finance website you may have seen featured on the news, or on some local blogger’s site, like this one where I hit upon it. Kiva has some very cool technical abilities to literally connect people from drastically different economic brackets in different countries and [...]

Here’s the final draft of my writing on Open Source and communications theory from my MA, with footnotes and everything, available in half a dozen cool formats thanks to Scribd…