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Rough Drafts

Essays and blog posts I've written that haven't been published elsewhere yet

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Jeremy Allaire’s weblog

Jeremy Allaire, cofounder of Allaire and now a Macromedia executive, gives a glimpse of what his company is working on: Client-side tools, based on Flash, that enable real-time collaboration. His demo is a little obscure but seems to be a tool for real-time collaborative database design — i.e. two o
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EFF bumper stickers

The EFF has new bumper stickers for all you consumer rights / fair use activists out there, with slogans such as “Fair Use Has A Posse” and “MP3 Is Not A Crime.” Nice. (thanks, BoingBoing)
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Joe Sixpack gets the axe

One difference between this recession and the last one: This time, it’s ordinary workers who are getting the ax, while the bosses’ jobs are protected. “American workers making less than $50,000 per year have seen their chances of being downsized increase 43 percent in the last two years,” says a pre
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Even more weblogs

In response to my estimate of the number of weblogs, a reader drew my attention to opendiary.com (nearly 3,800 users) and freeopendiary.com. The reader says the latter has half a million users, but I can’t find any information on the site to substantiate that. Any ideas if this is true? If so, it’s
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Grassroots KM

Just found this interesting article from ELearning post (May 2001) on how blogs, combined with storytelling, can function as knowledge management tools. It quotes amply from David Weinberger’s “Knowledge Narratives” piece and covers a lot of ground in its attempt to weave together blogs and narrativ
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Moved to MT

My move to Movable Type is complete. Just imported all of my Blogger entries (but only published the ones from 2002), and shifted files around so that my MT blog is now the main weblog on my site. The Blogger weblog is still live, however, and it’s available here. I’m not sure how or whether […]
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MT up and running

I got Movable Type up and running last week. The initial installation took about an hour; it went especially smoothly thanks to MT’s detailed, blow-by-blow instructions — the best I’ve seen yet for any CGI program I’ve installed. Since then I’ve been tweaking the configuration, poking around the sys
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Stereotypical librarians?

Stereotypical librarians — would the field be better off with a hipper image? Interesting links & discussion. “Libraries are the last bastion of freedom,” writes one commentator.
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Salt Point Weekend

Spent the Labor Day weekend camping at Salt Point, on the Sonoma county coast, with my family, including the in-laws. Woke up Saturday morning to a world of fog, the tall pines towering above us in the grey light, everything quiet and still. It stayed foggy until midafternoon. We walked up and down
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