Archive for May, 2004

I've had this happen several times, so I guess it's pretty repeatable. If you are editing some text in a multiline text field in form in Safari, hitting undo (command+z) crashes the browser. Especially frustrating when editing documents in say, a wiki... I was just beefing up my page for the NMC 2004 summer conference,... »

Feel free to contribute to this weblog. It's running on Blosxom, and is using a plugin that allows editing of posts via a web browser. All you need to know is the password, and you can create posts. Editing existing entries To edit this post, just click the "edit" link below. An editing form will show... »

This blog is for the purposes of the "Small Technologies Loosely Joined" presentation at the June 2004 NMC Summer Conference. This is the place to publish the support (or the lack thereof) for the "Decentralists" in terms of maximizing effectiveness through the use of small, organized, and distributed resources. In this presentation, we have created three... »

Case studies of Decentralist solutions can be posted and discussed here. »

Some of the various technologies that can be applied to a Decentralized approach will be described and discussed here. »

The nature of a decentralized system can lead to fragmentation - many different types of tools, each with its own pecularities. This can lead to a steep learning curve for users of the decentralized system. »

Decentralized systems are generally more reliable than single, monolithic Centralized systems. If one part of a Decentralized system becomes unavailable for some reason, the rest of the system is able to function without it. »

Stephen Downes just posted 2 links that might be useful. Latest issue of JIME. Topic is "The Educational Semantic Web". This is important because it may form a common way of describing resources in a more distributed way. APOLLO will need to tie into these concepts when they become available. An article called "Improving Metadata Quality:... »

A bunch of us here in the Learning Commons were poised above our keyboards at precisely noon today - when the available Saddledome seats were released to ticketmaster.ca Well, the rabid Flames fans basically brought the Ticketmaster server to its knees - search results were displaying an estimate of 15 minutes to find anything, and... »

This weblog started out a couple of years ago (first post retained from that era was July 2002 ) as a personal project, run under a beta of Blosxom, and published to my .Mac account. Most of the "early" posts from this era have been dropped, but I kept the ones relating to the... »