Too many topics, too little time

Communication & Collaboration Convergence. Uh oh, there's that word again.  Convergence.  The solution to all our problems. Siemens has released OpenScape, which integrates phone, voice mail, e-mail, text messaging, calendaring, instant messaging, and conferencing services. Its all centered on IM to synchronize use of different modes of communication, with a SIP server (Session Initiation Protocol) for […]

Blog -> BBS: WebDawn reverses the pattern. Another fusion of the patterns of weblogs and BBSes, this time in reverse. Mark Carey has created a new view of his Web Dawn weblog, reconfigured in BBS format: Forum View provides an alternative view to the blog, giving a more accurate view of the conversations taking place. […]

Lesbian Park Rangers. There's a new elite force protecting the wilderness in Canada; a duo whose love of the bush has become more than a vocation, it has become a calling. This is the story of some rangers who, unlike Mounties, aren't interested in getting their man. Meet the Lesbian Park Rangers. [MetaFilter] this is […]

on-line lectures. On-line recordings of lectures delivered at Columbia University's architecture school. Speakers included Alvaro Siza, Bernard Tschumi, Marshall Berman, and a number of other important architects and urbanists. [A bit more inside.] [MetaFilter] i've always liked reading about architecture, so here this is.

RSS Kerfluffle. Dave Winer says that MoveableType's RSS support is “funky”. Aaron Swartz offers an extensive and sensible survey of the question. [Mark Bernstein] mark asks later, 'can we please just talk about the tech' and the answer is 'no' because if it was about the tech, it would have been solved, now you are […]

Mac on an iPAQ. This almost looks like an elaborate hoax, but apparently someone has figured out to get the Mac operating system to run on an iPAQ Pocket PC. Not that there's a whole lot you would actually accomplish by doing so, except to prove it could be done. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts] [Gizmodo] i […]

Dylan Thomas – 50th Anniversary of the Poet's Death. And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad […]

On Search: The Users. Herewith Chapter Two of the search travelogue. Between late 1994 and early 1996 I was occupied full-time and then some building and running one of the first Web search engines, the long-departed Open Text Index. There weren‰??t many million-hits-a-day sites back then. When you‰??re running that kind of thing, you spend […]

Review of QuickTopic and Quick Doc. Great post by Alan at cogdogblog about two useful applications (one for single-topic discussions, the other for gathering comments on documents) with very low barriers to use. I love applications like this (which the folks at the TLT Group call 'Low Threshold Applications') which have a quick pay-off for instructors and students […]

Joel on Software: “Here's the thing: the very best candidates have come to realize that they have a choice of where to work, and when they apply for a job, they are applying because there's something intriguing about that particular job, not because they'll take any work that comes along. And you can see it […]