Tue, Apr 27, 2004
Manifesto Summit; More Responses
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In the two weeks since I last
responded to
feedback about my manifesto,
there have been several other interesting comments. Before I respond
to those, I want to make a couple of announcements. First, this
Thursday (April 29), I'm
presenting the
manifesto at SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center at 4pm in MenloPark, California. The
talk is free and open to the public. (1E2)
Second, BlueOxenAssociates is once again helping design this June's
PlaNetworkConference in SanFrancisco. In addition to the usual lineup
of great speakers, including TrueMajority's BenCohen (the "Ben" in Ben
& Jerry's), there will be a parallel
interactive component. The
format will be self-organizing, in some ways resembling OpenSpace, and
is being designed by TomorrowMakers (GailTaylor and company) and
BlueOxenAssociates. The purpose of the interactive component is to
give people some basic infrastructure to discuss and work on topics of
interest and also to enable different groups to connect and
intertwingle. (1E3)
I want to build on some of the interest that the manifesto has
generated, and the PlaNetworkConference offers a perfect venue to do
so. I'd like to propose a
summit at this June's conference for everyone interested in pursuing
greater interoperability between collaborative tools. If you'd like
to attend, drop me an email, register for the conference at the
web site, and rank the
topic. I'll followup later with more details. (1E4)
On to the comments. (1E5)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 1:20am
Mon, Apr 26, 2004
Aldo de Moor's Blog, Growing Pains
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AldoDeMoor, professor at TilburgUniversity? in the Netherlands, member
of the CollaborationCollaboratory, author of
several excellent papers
on virtual communities, and overall good guy has
joined the blogosphere.
Welcome, Aldo! His
latest piece explores the role of virtual communities in society as a
whole and introduces some of his latest research. (1E1)
/collaboration |
Posted at 12:01am
Tue, Apr 20, 2004
ChiliPLoP, Day 4
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Last Friday was the last day of ChiliPLoP. OfraHomsky?, JoshRai,
LindaRising, JoeYoder, and I met at our usual spot outside of the
dining hall for our morning kickoff. We had two items on our agenda:
workshop the patterns we had
discussed the day before and that Josh and I had
written
up, and discuss next steps. (1DF)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 3:09pm
ChiliPLoP, Day 3
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Last Thursday, my
workshop
met for a second day. Having
agreed on a
working definition for collaboration (see Collab:Collaboration), we
started working on the PatternLanguage. As was the case the previous
day, I knew exactly what I wanted to accomplish, and I made that clear
when we got started. What differed this day, however, was that
LindaRising, OfraHomsky?, and JoeYoder -- our three experienced
PatternLanguage authors -- led the way in terms of process. (1CT)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 1:01am
Wed, Apr 14, 2004
ChiliPLoP, Day 2
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Today, my workshop began in earnest. My goal for today was to collectively
develop a working definition of collaboration, and I'm happy to say
that we achieved that (see Collab:Collaboration). Tomorrow, we'll
start exploring patterns in earnest. (1BW)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 11:58pm
ChiliPLoP Day 1
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Yesterday afternoon, I arrived in Phoenix, Arizona for ChiliPLoP
2004. I hitched a ride with RalphJohnson and JoeYoder to Carefree,
Arizona, and soon found myself at the LutheranRetreatCenter, where the
conference is being held. (1BJ)
The post-dinner agenda was to discuss the structure of the
conference. Other than the meal schedule (which is strictly
enforced), there is no structure. This is what differentiates
ChiliPLoP from HillsideGroup's other PLoP conferences. The setting is
more relaxed, and the agenda is entirely flexible. (1BK)
Once we got business out of way, the fun began. There were a lot of
great conversations, and a few of us stayed up late into the night
chatting about everything from PatternLanguages to politics. (1BL)
TomMunnecke got the discussion started by asking about the
generativity of PatternLanguages. This is an ongoing beef that Tom
has with PatternLanguages, a misunderstanding that's important to
clarify. (1BM)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 11:56pm
Mon, Apr 12, 2004
Manifesto Comments, Responses
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Many thanks to everyone who's emailed me or blogged about
my manifesto. I've received
great feedback -- lots of kind words and constructive comments -- both
via email and the blogosphere. Because of the good folks at SlashDot,
the piece was widely
distributed.
The
last time something I wrote was SlashDotted, the responses were
mostly content-free. This time around, quite a few people there had
something reasonably substantial to say. (1AS)
See more....
/blueoxen |
Posted at 11:53pm
Thu, Apr 08, 2004
A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools
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I recently wrote an essay entitled,
"A Manifesto for Collaborative
Tools." It outlines a vision for how our tools can and should become
more interoperable. (1AQ)
The article is available both on the
web and in the May 2004 issue
of DrDobbsJournal. I'll also be
presenting the paper
at SRI's Artificial
Intelligence Center on Thursday, April 29 at 4pm in MenloPark,
California. The talk is open to the public. (1AR)
/blueoxen |
Posted at 5:45pm
