I’m always intrigued by timelines and by science fiction so this is a perfect combination
Friday Fun – iTunes, Inventions, Insult, and Ice Skating. Friday Fun – iTunes, Inventions, Insult, and Ice Skating — A few diversions this week…
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– An invention timeline from a science fiction perspective. I’m still amazed at the prescience of Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon.”
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Have a good weekend. [Frank Patrick’s Focused Performance Blog]
Looks like a tool worth taking time to look at. It’s in the queue.
A few days ago I was asking on #mobitopia what people preferred as a wiki/weblog system and someone (I think it was csete) mentioned SnipSnap. I didn’t have time to try it out until today. My comments: WOW. It took me literally five minutes to set up. It seamlessly connected to the local mysql installation (all I had to do was create a db and a user for it) and ran under my Tomcat/Apache config. After setting a couple of options I was on my way. It combines the idea of Wikis (easily creating links to pages) to the format/structure/features of a weblog. The “wikiness” of snipsnap does not extend to requiring WikiWords, which is, as far as I’m concerned, a relief. WikiWords inevitable end up requiring weird names for links.
It’s a java app, so it runs everywhere. The only potential problem I could find is that in edit mode there are tons of options to edit content and sometimes it can be confusing (or rather, a little overwhelming), but I get the impression that it wouldn’t be hard to get used to it.
If you’re looking for a weblog/wiki solution in Java that it’s easy to get started with, SnipSnap is definitely worth checking out.
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Given my general ignorance of IIS, SqlServer, and .NET I have yet to be able to get this to actually work in my environment. I’m sure I have something obvious misconfigured but I don’t know enough to figure out what and I haven’t had a lot of time to do the poking around that will ultimately lead me to getting it figured out.
Awesome web based application development tracker and cheap to boot..
For those of you looking for a way to track feature requests, bugs, tasks, and time lines to a lesser extent, and you don’t want to spend an arm and a leg look no further than Gemini from Countersoft. It’s only about $95 dollars US, depending on what the dollars is worth compared to the pound at the time of purchase, and if you limit it to 15 users or less and don’t put it on a public webserver it’s free!
It’s helping me become alot more organized. I can’t recommend it enough.
I’m riding the blue train
Over the miles yet to cover
A ghost in a hurry to fade
I’m taking it one way to nowhere
Afraid you might be there
To find me inside this blue train
Shouldn’t take you more than 5 or 10 minutes to complete.
Fellow researchers of mine are doing a blog survey. Help them out and share your opinions. Get good karma in return.
Congratulations to Ross and his new VP of Busines Development Rick Klau.
Socialtext in the Economist. Socialtext recieved some great coverage in The Economist. The article is available for single item purchase, but heck, subscribe to the magazine so you can access why technologies succeed as well. Here is an excerpt: …Ross Mayfield, the founder of… [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
Mark your calendars and pray for clear skies.
Late this month, the planets will put on a show for you. From March 25 to 30, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye. [Christian Science Monitor | Sci/Tech]
A sentiment well worth adopting.
Building on the Past (.mov) is the winning video from the recent Creative Commons contest. I especially like the ending words:
“creativity always builds on the past
and you’re building the past right now.
Share now.
Shape tomorrow.”
Buzz is now the third or fourth person I trust who’s told me I need to go see what Kunstler has to say. This, of course, is the risk of following people you trust in the blogging world. Your reading list grows well beyond anything you can possibly hope to complete no matter how fast you can read. Instead, you have to exercise your own judgments about how you are going to manage your information world. Of course, thinking about how you are going to do this explicitly is far better than doing it by default, which is what most of us do.
Talking to Jim…. One of the very bright guys that I met at PopTech! was Jim Kunstler. Jim is a critic of things that I care about. I am trying to get him into the blogging world, but in the meantime, go read… [buzzmodo]
More fascinating examples from Tufte about how to squeeze more meaning into data displays. The interesting tradeoff to be managed here is between design time to find compelling and meaningful representations and interpretation/decision time by those who will use the representations. As a gross generalization, design time gets short shrift at the expense of increased problems with interpretation and decision. A bad cost/benefit tradeoff.
Spaklines. Edward Tufte: Sparklines or Wordgraphs–some draft pages from Beautiful Evidence… [Emptybottle : Coasters]
