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Sun, May 30, 2004

Tim Bray on Purple Numbers #

I've long been a fan of TimBray's work, and although we had never crossed paths before, I had always assumed it would be instigated by me making some comment about something he had done or written about. (A few months back, I emailed him about ballparks in the Bay Area, because we seem to share a love for the sport, but that doesn't count.) So I was surprised and pleased to see that Tim had made first contact and had (temporarily, as it turned out) implemented PurpleNumbers on his blog. Not surprisingly, this is starting to generate some talk in the blogosphere. In particular, see: (1G9)

JonasLuster's Drupal implementation and comments. (1GA)
SimonWillison's comments and JavaScript for display. (1GB)
MarkNottingham's thoughts. (1GC)
ChrisDent's followups to all of this. (1GD)

Chris has done an excellent job of quickly addressing many of these issues. I'll just toss in a few thoughts and references here and will look forward to more feedback. (1GE)

See more....

/tech/purple | Posted at 1:22pm

Fri, May 28, 2004

PlaNetwork Conference 2004 in San Francisco #

The 2004 PlaNetwork Conference is next weekend, June 5-7, 2004, at the GoldenGateClub in SanFrancisco. This will be the place to gather to talk about the upcoming election, OnlineActivism, EnvironmentalSustainability?, SocialJustice?, and applying technology towards furthering all of these causes. JoanBlades? of MoveOn and BenCohen (the "Ben" in Ben & Jerry's) of TrueMajority will be keynoting this year. (1FT)

As I mentioned previously, BlueOxenAssociates is codesigning this year's event with TomorrowMakers. The InterActive component is going to be a great place for people to gather, learn, and make connections (both the personal and the knowledge kinds). It will also be a great demonstration of some of the hybrid collaborative processes I've talked about so often in this blog and elsewhere. (1FU)

We'll also be demonstrating the first prototypes of the IdentityCommons system. More on this later. (1FV)

We've set up a conference Wiki for the event itself and also for conversing before and after the event. We also have an IRC channel on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net, #planetwork) with logs. I'll be on that channel a lot over the next week or so, so be sure to drop by and say hello. Finally, if you plan to blog about the conference yourself, please see PlaNetwork:BloggingTheConference. (1FW)

I hope to see many of you there. It will be a great opportunity to meet, organize, have fun, and do lots of good. (1FX)

/events | Posted at 1:49pm

Mon, May 24, 2004

Videocast at The Competitive Edge #

I'll be participating in this week's The Competitive Edge event (part of Kolabora Online). RobinGood will interview me and StuartHenshall this Thursday, May 27, at 9am PDT. I'll be talking about my manifesto. The event will be a live videocast that anyone will be able to view via a Flash-enabled browser. Please register and drop by; would love to see you there. (1F5)

/blueoxen | Posted at 3:35pm