Archive for October, 2003

The big Pachyderm 2.0 Kickoff Meeting in San Francisco is just about wrapping up now. It's been amazing the last couple of days. This group is simply incredible, with representatives from museums, universities, colleges, and the corporate world. And they all Get it. The energy and excitement in the group is tangible. They are here... »

I've just put together a prototype Sherlock channel for APOLLO. Easy peasy tool to write (actually, 99% of it is the default Sherlock channel template file, with a couple of minor tweaks. This is starting to feel much more useful (to me, anyway). An all-in-one application interface for searching and viewing learning objects. Next, I... »

Panther simply rocks. At first, I thought it would take a while to get used to Expose (I am/was a die-hard Virtual Desktop user) but I'm actually quite liking it. The whole thing feels like a much faster OS (not sure if it actually is or not - who cares? perception is everything). This... »

I just came across the MT-Blacklist plugin for MovableType. It seems like the perfect solution to the extremely annoying problem of weblog spam. Over the last 2 weeks, I've had to remove over 100 spam comments on this weblog. Over 99% of them were apparently from bot software that spiders the blog to bump up... »

We're still in the planning stages for the next version of the software that runs CAREO and friends. This would be a Good Time to send in wish lists for things that you would like a learning object repository to do, things you like/dislike/can't stand about the current version of CAREO, or even (especially) Pie-In-The-Sky... »