Friday, May 30, 2003

Pure CSS2 Drop-down Menus. Drop-down menus without JavaScript? Enterprising designers like Stuart Robertson and Eric Meyer have created standards-based pull-down menus using the :hover pseudo-class to display other elements. By Andy King. 0529 [WebReference News]

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Wiki. Getting up to speed on wikis. Wikis are now on the radar screens of many of us grappling with using technology effectively in knowledge work. Ward Cunningham's book,The Wiki Way:Quick Collaboration on the Web, has been on my bookshelf for some time now and I've visited a handful of public wikis. Lately there's been a spate of posts in the blog world about wikis. I've gathered up and made a first pass at organizing the ones I've encountered into what might be a reasonable order (based on my current level of ignorance). One thing that did help me get a better grasp on wikis was listening to David Weinberger's talk at Seabury Western two weeks ago. David was drawing attention to the collaborative effort to produce the Wikipedia, which is essentially an open source model effort at creating an online encyclopedia. I had always been puzzled by the free-for-all editing capability inherent in the wiki technology. The analogy that finally made it clear for me was to a whiteboard in a conference room. Those frequently become shared design spaces as markers change hands. Wikis are the same idea moved to the web, which suggests to me that they are likely to be more useful inside organizations than elsewhere. Why Wiki Works - [link courtesy of Corante: Social Software, which has been following the Wiki discussion in depth] Why Wike Works/Not Why I Don't Like Wikis Email - [Also from Corante: Social Software] - Some interesting observations about visual presentation in wikis and email vs. better laid out web pages and how this interferes with the usefulness of wikis (at least on the public web). Email Doesn't Self-Organize - [from Ross Mayfield] - quoting Ward Cunningham Cunningham also points out that you can go away from a wiki and come back at any time to pick up a conversation without much inconvenience, which isn't the case with e-mail-centric group discussions. "E-mail doesn't self-organize," he emphasizes. The Cunningham quote comes from What's a Wiki? an overview article by Sebastian Rupley at Extreme Tech. Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool [via Sebastian Fiedler] - which appears to be a good overview with lots of links. From the other Seb in my aggregator (Sebastien Paquet at Seb's Open Research) comes Why Meatball Matters. Meatball Wiki is a little-known gem in the jungle of online community-related material on the Web. What is it about? A whole lot of fascinating stuff - in founder Sunir Shah's words: It philosophizes about the nature of hypertext, government, and identity. It talks about user interfaces, community building, and conflict resolution. But it also contains technical analyses of indexing schemes, wiki architecture, and inter-wiki protocol design. Sunir has recently been busy writing up a nice summary of what's significant about Meatball, as part of a work portfolio he's preparing to get into the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. I believe Sunir understands Wiki philosophy better than anyone else I know. His contributions to framing the concept and patterns of soft security that underlie the social architecture of Wikis are what made me an early convert to Meatball. If only Sunir had kept a blog instead of a home-brewed diary page, he'd surely be well-known in social software circles today. Hopefully, as the Wiki way slowly seeps into the mainstream Internet mentality, its perceived weirdness will subside and collaborative hypermedia communities like this one will get the recognition (and linkage) they deserve. [McGee's Musings] [Ian's Messy Desk]

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Practical RDF: Sometimes you feel like RDF, sometimes you don't. (SOURCE:"burningb")-Excellent wine example clearly explains the difference between XML, RDF and ontologies and the uses of each! <quote> XML gives us the ability to record bits and pieces of data in a valid manner. RDF then builds on the data, piecing the bits and pieces together into complete statements. Ontologies then take these statements and builds machine-understandable inferential rules based around them. The result of all this working together is the wine scenario: </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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Leaf Nodes. (SOURCE:"blts")-Yup the paradox of blogging. CEOs, CFOs, CTOs and all officers of public companies walk the fine line between private and public all the time. This is nothing new for them but this is new to the "Leaf Nodes" I think it's going to become increasingly normal for leaf nodes to have to do this finely balanced dance because transparent (both internally and externally) corporations will eventually rule the earth. <quote> As long as your company views your blogging as "you chatting with your neighbors on your personal time", you pose little risk. But the more that co-workers, CEOs, and so on are on-record as being cool with blogs, the more that blogs take on the timbre of being "official". The more "official" that blogs are, the more perceived risk the company takes on by allowing you to blog. And neither you nor your CEO is really keen to make things more complicated than they need to be. And this is why, IMO, you see most companies and employees today still dancing around the issue of employee blogs and seemingly settling on a "don't ask, don't tell, and please for the love of God don't do anything stupid" policy. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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waste. (SOURCE:"corante_social")-A FreeGroove? Perhaps one of the services should be a blog service !?!?! <quote> WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users. WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology. Some bits of information about WASTE: ... WASTE currently provides the following services: * Instant Messaging (with presence) * Group Chat * File browsing/searching * File transfer (upload and download) </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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The Yankee Blogger's 100 Things About Me project.. (SOURCE:"emblog")-Nice need to do this someday. [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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Radio Userland Kick Start - Brent is doing the Technical editing. (SOURCE:"inessential")-It's going to be a must-read for then because Brent is editing it <quote> On the side, when I'm not working on NetNewsWire, I've been doing technical editing for Rogers Cadenhead'ms upcoming book Radio UserLand Kick Start. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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Rocking the house with FOAF, Faces Fun. (SOURCE:"marcc")-Awesome idea! Leave an icon which links to you instead of a comment! Sort of like: "I was here!" <quote> When I read a blog post that I like, I don't always have something to say. Still, I might like to leave something. What if I was to leave a small photo of myself that shows up either at the bottom of the blog post or where comments are displayed? People will see at a glance that so-and-so read the post. If I did make a textual comment, the image can link to the comment. Otherwise, the image can link to my own blog. This feature can be added to news aggregators or to browsers using a browser extension. Just click a button and a visual representation of your opinion gets added to the article (as a comment for now). At the same time, link the article could be added to your daily recommended article list published at your own blog. Although I got sidetracked, I thought this was an interesting enough idea to share. At least, I think Marc might like it since this idea is in the neighborhood of his visual endorsement stamp idea. Of course, you can already do this now by inserting HTML into the comment. But HTML support is not ubiquitously available and those comments usually appear in one-off area like second-class data. [Don Park's Blog] FOAF Button Don's on a roll. And what a perfect post to followup on the FOAF registry? Maybe DON can get all this code written (or find some hackers in Seoul to do it?) The ONLY application I've seen of FOAF so far - has been in Alf's spruced up Blam - the RVW demo. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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Another test K-Collector post. Hope it works this time! Last time my topics were not present in the cloud. UPDATE: it looks like it is working now! Maybe last time I was missing some updates due to my recent renewal of my Radio license. [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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[HELP] Want to make Radio Express work with K-Collector. Now that I have got K-Collector working, I'd like to enable it from RadioExpress. I imagine it's a one line fix or at most a few lines. I'm willing to code it if somebody tells me what line to insert in the RadioExpress file. Anybody? [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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