Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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Last week, very quietly so as to not attract attention, the architecturally redesigned version of Elgg slipped out onto Subversion. Since then there have been a number of updates; the code freeze is very much over, and we're now at the point where I'd really like
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20060314_139 An hour-long webcast with the inventor of the Web about its future.
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A TV remote control that can display XML-based widgets? Whatever next? People have been talking about things like fridges with flat panel displays for just about an eternity now, but I've never really seen the point. To-do lists are great, for sure, but I think most families would
Not to say I told you so, but This is only the beginning - ajax (and, I'm sure, other technologies that will peek out from around the corner before we know it) is on the up. I really don't think it'll be long before
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Nature "cooked" its article on Wikipedia, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has claimed. It's worth noting that The Register, which hosts the linked article, isn't a bastion of balanced journalism (and often contains anti-web 2.0 invective), but it certainly sounds like something fishy may have
Sorry for the slow updates - as you can see, we're on the road again. We've had some very interesting discussions; it's been great to meet the team here at MIT. Thanks to David Wiley for flying us over.
Nintendo DS to get VoIP soon. The Nintendo DS is a handheld games console in the vein of the old Gameboy - but with the addition of a touch-sensitive screen and wifi capabilities. Just as the Playstation 2 brought DVDs into a lot of people's homes, this has
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http://www.joga.com/GLogin.aspx?done=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joga.com%2F A Google-Nike social networking joint venture. It appears to run on the Orkut platform, which has interesting implications for the future ...
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Curverider is running a conference! We're organising an informal one day event in Edinburgh on September 4th, where we'll be talking about web technologies, learning landscapes, distributed environments and more. We've already lined up some interesting speakers and have plans for quite a controversial
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http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Technology/microsoft-ie-activex-update/ Plugins are about to be crippled in IE due to a patent dispute. No autorunning Flash could actually be a blessing, I think.
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This post has nothing to do with e-learning - or does it? This Michael Crichton op-ed in the New York Times caught my eye this morning. Normally I'm not so much of a Crichton fan - I loved his books when I was younger, but his recent anti-environmentalist
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I am hopelessly addicted to Babble. I've always been a bit of a Boggle fan, but having a single puzzle every day that I can log into from any web browser and keep open in the background as I do my work is enough to keep me coming