This was another WikiSym 2006 demo site … AboutUs.org. It is a wiki of web sites, a possible future option to Google et al as a starting point in searches.
AboutUs is a “fully editable” web site pre-populated with information about other sites. A computer goes around scraping WhoIs information to create a page. That prompts [...]
Aboutus.com
Meatball version of design eXchange
Hey, Eli … Take a look at this. Sunir Shah, the guy maintaining the Meatball wiki, has set up a very interesting wiki that mirrors some of the goals of the design eXchange (or see the previous incarnation).
This was one of the sites demos at WikiSym 2006 on Monday. It uses some structured forms to [...]
SHO( )OT MY BLOG!
I picked up this news from the Freakonomics blog and thought it might be interesting to follow. The gist for Shoot My Blog is:
Take an original photo of my blog with your digital camera or mobile phone and send it to shootmyblog@hotmail.com. There’s only one requirement: your computer monitor or laptop (with my blog title/homepage [...]
WikiTrails: Augmenting Wiki Structure for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Learning
Silvan Reinhold (U. of Frankfurt/Germany) offered a concept for supplementing a wiki with navigational trails superimposing context over the wiki content. WikiTrails adds a “tracking engine” into the wiki database and provides visual navigation of paths. There is a level of automatic creation of these paths (tracking), requiring data aggregation and merging of trails, and [...]
European sirens
The Radisson in Odense is just a block or so away from the police station. Since there is no apparent concept of air conditioning in a country that is the latitudinal equivalent of northern Manitoba (if it had some sea ports), I have the window open wide. And so I can hear the city streets [...]
Is There a Space for the Teacher in a Wiki?
Andreas Lund and Ole Smordal of Informedia gave a talk about a (young) student classroom project that made me think of Wisdom Tools, the story-based e-learning company Marty started. They were talking about how the teacher in their study disappeared under the barrage of page content the kids were creating, and wondering what ways they [...]
Flowers for Amy
There’s a lovely little garden area in Odense, which must be the birthplace of Hans Christen Andersen. Since Amy couldn’t come herself — and because it probably violates some Danish law to actually pick them — I’m sending this bouquet to her via blog …