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March 31, 2005
RE/MAX Southeast Boynton Beach Florida
My name is Jason Heatherly and my partner is Jason Nolan; together we are the Jason & Jason Home Selling Team. We are Palm Beach home specialists. We have been practicing Real Estate in Palm Beach county for the past four years. We provide only the best service and use only the newest technology to help buyers and sellers meet their Real Estate needs.
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Web Scam Info
Someone was asking me for advice about a web scam that they'd never seen before. Identity Theft - Get free tips, tools and information had some good info, so I thought I'd blog it... to both share it, and so I'd know where the info is in the future. If you've not noticed, my blog is mostly about having a big box where you dump stuff so you know where it is later.
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The OpenEEG WARNING.txt file
[A reminder to always read the warning with your open source software... via Dave.]
We include the following warning file to help make clear to everyone what the risks might be from using home-built EEG gear, and to help you make your own safety assessments:
IMPORTANT WARNING
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If you choose to use the OpenEEG project hardware and/or software to do neurofeedback training or experimentation on yourself or others, you do so ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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March 30, 2005
The First International Wikimedia Conference
Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 4 August 2005 to 8 August 2005. Wikimedia is the non-profit organization operating Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and the Wikimedia Commons. We are now accepting papers and other submissions (from everyone within and outside the Wikimedia and Wikipedia communities) for presentations, workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speaker panels and keynote speakers, and suggestions for other activities. Mail all submissions to cfp@wikimedia.org.
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Beachcombing on Technology's Shore
[Ken is one of my oldest friends, and we've collaborated on odds and ends over the years. If you're in Ottawa, check it out!]
Artist Kenneth Emig will give a talk on his new exhibition "Bits of Technology" at Pukka Gallery this Saturday April 2, starting at 2pm.
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Beachcombing on Technology's Shore
Kenneth Emig Bits of Technology
Pukka Gallery
1178 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa
1 -4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays
March 19th and 20th,
April 2nd and 3rd, 2005
Opening: Friday, March 18th, 5 8 pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday April 2, 2 pm
Ottawa (March 15, 2005)Artist Kenneth Emig is enthralled by the beauty of the technological flotsam and jetsam that regularly drift his way. He hopes that viewers of his upcoming show, Bits of Technology, will come away sharing his curiosity and fascination with the pretty little things that make up the technology we use in our day-to-day lives. The work explores the beauty and elegance of discarded technology and offers a new way to look at the machines we take for granted. To create his compositions, Emig uses a variety of found and surplus materials from hard disks to copper gaskets to lenses and rotors.
"We often use technology, but don't look at what makes it work," says Emig. "I hope that viewers will look at the components of technology, which they might use and not normally pay attention to, and take pause to consider themthe design work and skill that went into themand maybe come away with a different appreciation of the world around them."
Over the past year, Emig has completed several commissions including a public artwork for the City of Ottawa for the Eva James Memorial Community Centre in Kanata. From his studio at Enriched Bread Artists in Ottawa, Emig has worked since 1995 to present his ideas and explorations across southern Ontario and the Northeastern US. He is currently a guest worker at the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology exploring the artistic uses of collaborative spaces over broadband Internet.
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For more information contact:
Julia von Hahn
tel: (613) 798-9870
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March 29, 2005
...of national historic significance to Canada
OTTAWA, March 24 /CNW Telbec/ - The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment, today announced five new designations commemorating four places and one event of national historic significance to Canada.
[This includes L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish (Cavendish, Prince Edward Island) which I thought was already an historic site.]
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March 28, 2005
A Dracula Handbook
Elizabeth just gave Yuka and I a copy of her new book A Dracula Handbook. And she dedicated the book to both of us! Well, actually, it is the first North American publication, there's a version published in 2003 by Gerot Publishing in Romania, and it has been a great hit throughout Romania on the Dracula tourist circuit.
here's the blurb:
A Dracula Handbook provides succinct and accurate information about Dracula. Written for a general readership, the book should appeal to aficionados, students and the just-plain-curious. Using question/answer format, the book covers a range of topics: the origins of the vampire myth; the life of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897); the novel, its genesis and sources; the historical figure (Vlad the Impaler) whose nickname Stoker borrowed for his Count; an examination of the connection between Vlad and Count Dracula; the phenomenal impact the novel has had since its publication; and an overview of interpretations of the book. Also included is a comprehensive reading list.Here are some of the many questions that are directly answered in the book:
What are the roots of vampire lore?
How did vampires move from folklore to literature?
What do we know about the actual writing of Dracula?
Where did Bram Stoker find his information about vampires?
Are there any autobiographical elements in Dracula?
Did Dracula originate in a nightmare?
What do we know of the relationship between Stoker and his wife?
Did Stoker die of syphilis?
How did Count Dracula become a vampire?
Does Count Dracula have any redeeming qualities?
How was the novel Dracula received when published in 1897?
What did Stoker himself say about the novel?
Why did Stoker name his vampire “Dracula”?
Why did he select Transylvania as the vampire’s homeland?
How much did Stoker really know about Vlad the Impaler?
Was Vlad ever associated with vampire legends?
What are our main sources of information about Vlad?
Why do many Romanians consider Vlad to be a national hero?
Which of the Dracula movies is the best adaptation of Stoker’s novel?
What impact has Dracula had on subsequent vampire fiction?
Why does Count Dracula have such enduring appeal?
How do Romanians feel about Dracula tourism in their country?
Is there a real Castle Dracula?
What are some of the interpretations of Dracula?
Is Dracula a classic?And many, many more! Depending on the complexity of the questions, the answers range from 5-6 lines to several pages. At the end of each chapter there is a shortlist for further reading. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive Bibliography.
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How Wiki Articles Evolve
I had a job talk last week at a university. It is a job that I would really REALLY like. There are three that I would really like that I'm being considered for. Anyway, the presentation went well... got help from Jeremy and Aaron and others with my powerpoint slides. I don't like powerpoint. But then again, I don't like having to talk about things in 20 minutes (if you want to see the slides, check out http://jasonnolan.net/talk.html now that I've removed most all reference to the university involved). One of the people interviewing me had missed the question section, and only attended my presentation. While I was discussing wikipedia and my interest in making an educationally specific wikipedia, we had quite a heated discussion over what counts as an encyclopedia. If you know me, you'll realize that I think that knowledge is socially constructed, as are the terms we use, et al. So for the notion of encyclopedia to morph is just normal to me. Not for this person. An encyclopedia is an encyclopedia, and because wikis do not have formal peer review before they are available to the public and are subject to error, they cannot ex officio be an encyclopedia. Leaving aside the notion of truth being transient, and revisions to encyclopedia in various versions, what came out of the discussion was the sense that by making the process of development transparent, what I was suggesting moved beyond the monolithic academic notions of truth to the presentation of a negotiation process of the construction of knowledge. This is nothing new, and has been discussed formally, but what I liked is how most of the people at the table really caught on to it. I could feel the excitement. As for the person who disagreed, I don't think the disagreement was that deep, and I could imagine that this prof is one that I'd love to collaborate with specifically due to her perspective and reticence in interacting with digital technology. I think I'd learn alot.
So, when I found this article, I thought of the experience and wanted to book mark it for use in class.
Slashdot | History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve
teslatug writes "IBM has released a preliminary alpha version of its History Flow Visualization Application that shows how collaboratively created documents evolve. The tool is written in Java and it's available for download along with plugins for MoinMoin and MediaWiki. They have some interesting screenshots of the Wikipedia articles on abortion, Brazil, and love."
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Fair Use Thumbnails
I was reading Joi Ito's Web: Google lawsuits guiding the way and stop at the phrase "Fair Use Thumbnails" to describe the use of small images to refer to an image that might be copyrighted, just as you'd use a quote from text to illustrate or refer to a point. Joi mentioned 150x150 pixels max, which is enough for you to know what the image is about, without it being of much value to you. It will make for an interesting discussion for my summer course.
According to GigaLaw.com: Photos and Fair Use Online: From Penthouse Pets to Kelly's Thumbnails:
In a landmark case, a U.S. court of appeals has ruled that posting small, "thumbnail"-sized images of another's aesthetic photos on a web site is a fair use -- and therefore not copyright infringement -- when done for information-gathering or indexing purposes. Although the court's decision provides important guidance about fair use and photos on the Internet, it does not mean that all thumbnail images are legal. In this article, a former attorney for Penthouse magazine discusses the history of illegal photo copying on the Internet and the significance of this case for understanding online copyright infringement and fair use.
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March 27, 2005
Why I live to teach...
New York Daily News - Home - Schoolhouse crock
A Bronx teacher who repeatedly flunked his state certification exam paid a formerly homeless man with a developmental disorder $2 to take the test for him, authorities said yesterday.
Via Alex Halavais, via Alex, via Gawker
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Open Source/Open Access as a Social Constructionist Epistemology
Open Source/Open Access as a Social Constructionist Epistemology by Charles Lowe is an interesting flash presentation. I found it a bit reductionist, and somewhat superficial in its reading of Academic social interaction. Not untrue in the most, but selective. But the same with the open source/access community. I guess it is a bit evangelical. I agree with it over all, and I'm hopeful of the goals, especially with open source learning which most educators have been tacitly involved in for eternity. Note that constructionism IS a perspective that was articulated in the academy, amongst early childhood educators, I might add. And that what we know of the roots of open source movement(s) have a tie in with academic traditions.
Thanks for pointing this out to me jeremy!
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March 26, 2005
Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh
From Slashdot | Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh check out publius_ovidius: Don't fuck with Ovid -- the long version. Yay Livejournaler!
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John is Back in Town
Project OS|OA : Lecture Series Outline -- John Willensky: The Access Principle: The New Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good
I use John's PKP Open Journal Systems for The Harrow: Original Works of Fantasy and Horrow and am very happy with it.
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March 25, 2005
Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdown
[Sure. Interesting. But once again, we're reminded that the Internet, and blogging, is an American only issue in the minds of... well just about everyone in the media unless something quaint goes on in Botswana.]
Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week.
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March 24, 2005
Linux Juke Box
O'Reilly: Resurrect Your Old PC for Music--with Linux
Are you the kind of person who can't toss out old gear? I know I am--though I must admit that embracing the art of junk-collecting has come in handy from time to time. For instance, this article will show you how to resurrect a tired old PC by installing a modern operating system, and then revitalize the computer as an internet-enabled CD player, DVD burner, and MP3 jukebox.
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March 23, 2005
James and the Grail
HistoryTelevision.ca :: The Real Di Vinci Codewas on tonight, and at the beginning they talk about all the books on the Grail and of the pile, the only one they focus on is my old MA supervisor James' book Glastonbury Abbey. We'd spent part of the afternoon on the phone trying to solve the mystery of the disappearing Word document on his computer. Strangeness.
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Cat Journal
From asahi.com : English
Haraguchi, 65, is editor of Neko Shimbun, or Cat Journal, a monthly eight-page newspaper he started in 1994 to offer insights different from those seen in other pet magazines.
You could say he offers a distinctly feline point of view.
The Cat Journal doesn't talk about kitty litter and cat toys. Far from it. Instead, it examines the human condition with thought-provoking statements like: ``The Iraq war has affected not just the country's human population-cats and other animals have died, too. I want our readers to keep that view in mind.
[Yuka's been a regular contributor to Cat Journal for 2 years, and I do the photography for her articles.]
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March 22, 2005
Office Cam is Back
I found an extension USB cable, so I thought I'd turn the cam back on. It updates every ten minutes, cause Toronto's not that exciting. I also opened the window, so that the cam doesn't have to look through a window. Fun? Wow.
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March 21, 2005
Apple Developing New Palmtop Mac
[I'm a newton and emate fan. I have two emates still. There have never, in my mind, been any better palmtops. We can only hope.]
O'Grady's PowerPage - Your Mobile Technology Destination
Apple Developing New Palmtop Mac
08 March 2005 06:30 EST
Neal Hoskins EU Bureau Chief
From the Hardware Dept.
Remember Apple's eMate 300 from the early nineties? (nicknamed "Eat Me" by developers). It was a kind of Batman green and a fab little flat lap Newton. The PowerPage EU bureau has been beamed some details of a secret development team planning specifications for the release of a new mini laptop. (It goes well with their current mini theme. -Ed). Deep in the Apple cave these slim little mini pocketops are doing the rounds and getting a lot of great feedback. Sources who claim to have see one have commented that an internal planning spec details that the new machine runs a stripped-down flavour of Mac OS X. We're told that it will finally utilize Apple's Inkwell technology to "write anywhere" and neatly fold into your pocket - rather like an
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My Friend Flickr
Yahoo buys photo-sharing site Flickr | CNET News.com
Yahoo has purchased online photo-sharing service Flickr, less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool.
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Development and science
Never fear, Alex is here: » Development and science: "I was shocked to hear that in Iran movie theaters—even those in science museums—refuse to show scientific documentaries that clash with fundamentalist religious doctrine. While there is much to be appreciated in religious culture and custom, it is unfortunate when one of God’s greatest gifts, the ability to reason, is thrown away without regard. Science is a human process, but of divine origins, and if there is any sin, it is ignoring the potential of humans to better understand the world." Don't stop here, read it ALL!
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March 18, 2005
Mann on Video
I've got a new quicktime movie of Steve Mann playing with one of his funtains. This one's great as it shows him demoing it for a bunch of engineering students at UofT. If you've never seen Steve's favorite toy, check this out. It's 17megs, but worth it.
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March 17, 2005
Book Launch: The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives
My friend James is having a book launch last for his latest work "The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives". Yuka and I got a copy, and it is quite wonderful. I always wonder at how lucky some people are, getting to work with such great material.
The The Good Book Guide says:
Take a peek inside the covers of many of the books belonging to Henry VIII and it is immediately obvious that he not only read them, but had the bad habit of scrawling annotations inside them too. In spite of fire, war, theft, political turmoil and the passage of time, a surprisingly large number of Henry’s books have survived until today. Although perhaps better known for his marital exploits, Henry was in fact one of the most widely read Renaissance monarchs and spent considerable time and money acquiring his vast library. The books he chose reflected not only his own interests but also highlighted the major issues of the day. Alongside these volumes exist the books of Henry’s wives, themselves great readers and thinkers. Through his detailed descriptions of these collections, James Carley gives a valuable insight into the personalities and philosophies of their owners and sheds light on the marriages of the king.
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Anyone near Baltimore?
Brady's an online friend of mine who has this show opening May 20. If you can make it, let me know how it goes. He does some great work.
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March 15, 2005
KAT! Says... So it must be true.
KAT!
points out that even Google loves OS X: GoogleX.
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A Review of Internet Privacy Statements and On-Line Practices
[My friend Rajen is organizing this, and asked if I'd spread the word.]
PIPEDA Conference, March 18, 2005 - Privacy Project
A Review of Internet Privacy Statements and On-Line Practices
Friday, March 18th, 9:30 - 4:00 pm.
SPEAKERS
Daniel Solove -
Associate Professor,George Washington University Law School
Mathew Englander -
Lawyer and complainant in Englander v TELUS case
Stephanie Perrin -
President of Digital Discretion, and Research Coordinator,
Anonymity Project (www.anonequity.org)
Drew McArthur -
Vice President and PrivacyOfficer for TELUS
A conference to discuss current on-line privacy policies and practices in the Canadian private sector, the effectiveness of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and related emerging information privacy issues.
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Wiki Becomes a Way of Life
I'm a fan of wikipedia, for all the wrong reasons. I missed this article last week, but yuka pointed it out to me. I like the article, for it's humanizing of the folks involved.
Wired News: Wiki Becomes a Way of Life:
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has 490,000 articles -- in English alone. All together, including its French, German, Italian, Chinese, Spanish and many other versions, it has well over 1.3 million entries.
But without its 16,000 contributors, Wikipedia would be about as useful as a moldy 1978 edition of Encyclopedia Americana. With them, Wikipedia has become the world's largest effort of its kind, and one that is compared to Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of quality and breadth.
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Beachcombing on Technology’s Shore
Kenneth Emig – Bits of Technology
Pukka Gallery
1178 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa
1 – 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays
March 19 th and 20th, April 2 nd and 3rd, 2005
Artists’ Talk: Saturday, April 2 nd, 2005
Opening: Friday, March 18 th, 5 – 8 pm
Ottawa (March 14, 2005)—Artist Kenneth Emig is enthralled by the beauty of the technological flotsam and jetsam that regularly drift his way. He hopes that viewers of his upcoming show, Bits of Technology, will come away sharing his curiosity and fascination with the pretty little things that make up the technology we use in our dayto-day lives. The work explores the beauty and elegance of discarded technology and offers a new way to look at the machines we take for granted. To create his compositions, Emig uses a variety of found and surplus materials from hard disks to copper gaskets to lenses and rotors. “We often use technology, but don’t look at what makes it work,” says Emig. “I hope that viewers will look at the components of technology, which they might use and not normally pay attention to, and take pause to consider them—the design work and skill that went into them—and maybe come away with a different appreciation of the world around them.” Over the past year, Emig has completed several commissions including a public artwork for the City of Ottawa for the Eva James Memorial Community Centre in Kanata. From his studio at Enriched Bread Artists in Ottawa, Emig has worked since 1995 to present his ideas and explorations across southern Ontario and the Northeastern US. He is currently a guest worker at the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology exploring the artistic uses of collaborative spaces over broadband Internet.
For more information contact: Julia von Hahn tel: (613) 798-9870
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March 14, 2005
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April
Think Secret - Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April
Apple will officially announce Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's release at an event in early April and will begin shipping the operating system within two or three weeks afterwards, Think Secret has learned. Apple has previously only stated that Tiger will ship during the first half of the 2005.
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All together now!
Words now contains my entire blog archive from spring 2001 to the present. Until now it was spread across 2 other old blogs. It took forever to hand edit 1200 blog entries to make them importable into moveable type, but with a few glitches, I got it done. Me happy.
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March 13, 2005
Sing to me, Bro!
So, you don't think there are enough Jason Nolans in your life? Check out ab alter Jason Nolan.
www.jasonnolan.co.uk is the domain. The man. The music. Sing to me.
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Gluten Free Beer... only in Canada?
Kenny tracked down LaMessagere, a gluten free beer. I want to try it. I've been going off beer for the past couple of years, and wondered why. Perhaps... something new?
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2005 International Symposium on Wikis
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
2005 International Symposium on Wikis
Oct 17-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005
http://www.wikisym.org
OVERVIEW
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2005!
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers
* practitioner reports
* demonstrations
* workshops
* panels
Research paper and practitioner report submissions are due
April 29, 2005
Workshop, and panel submissions are due
April 8, 2005
Demonstration submissions are due
July 1, 2005
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wikis as social software
* wiki user behavior, user dynamics
* wiki user experiences, usability
* wiki implementation experiences and technology
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* domain-specific/special-purpose wikis
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research or novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience or experimentation. They are reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation.
Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis. At the symposium, the presenter will be given a 25min + 5min Q&A presentation slot. Research papers should not be longer than 10000 words and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Practitioner reports will be reviewed for suitability of presentation to the community. The primary evaluation criterion is the interest to the community. Practitioner reports will be provided as part of the companion to the conference proceedings handed out at the symposium and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the Companion to the Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis. Practitioner reports should not be longer than 6000 words and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings Format.
Demonstration, workshop, and panel submissions will be reviewed for their interest to the community. Submit two pages of description of what you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. Please include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the submission. Demonstrations will get 45min slots in a booth of their own, workshops will get a half-day and a room of their own, and panels will get a 90min slot at the symposium.
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format (or postscript, if you must) by the respective deadline to submissions@wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California, on Oct 17 and 18, 2005. WikiSym 2005 will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2005 conference, and participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly register for OOPSLA 2005.
If you have any questions, please contact Dirk Riehle through chair@wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Dirk Riehle, Independent (chair)
Ward Cunningham, Microsoft
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington
David Ornstein, Microsoft
Sebastien Paquet, National Research Council of Canada
Stephan Schmidt, Fraunhofer FIRST
Sunir Shah, University of Toronto
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March 11, 2005
Fixed...
Been having problems upgrading my blog, but I have it all fixed now. Perhaps I'll find some content... but in brief:
- I'd booked my flight to the IAFA on Jetsgo. So I'm not going.
- spent the afternoon with steve mann hooking up his funtain for some engineers to play with
- watched "the last remake of beau geste"
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March 08, 2005
An Expert Panel on News Gathering and Image Making: From Iraq to the trial of Jacko
[Megan Boler sent this to me... thought I'd share.]
Presented by The Association for Media Literacy
Tuesday March 8, 5.30-7.30 PM
Place: National Film Board Auditorium, John and Richmond Sts.
Anna Marie Tremonti- Host of CBC- Radio's "The Current"
Tony Burman - Head of News CBC -TV
Robert Hurst - Head of News CTV -News
Giles Gherson - Editor in Chief, The Toronto Star
Megan Boler- Associate Professor, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Admission: AML Members free; Non-members: $10.00;
Students: $5.00
For more information, Call Barry Duncan ~(416) 233-8282
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Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Research | Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers. And now for something completely different.
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March 06, 2005
HODER on BBC News
BBC NEWS | Technology | Persian blogging round the globe
Hossein Derakhshan, who keeps a weblog under the name of Hoder, has already made a name for himself in the Persian-language blogosphere.
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March 02, 2005
Fear of the Unknown
Echelon Press Publishing announces the publication of the print version of the Harrow anthology Fear of the Unknown that I co-edited:
Echelon Press Publishing is pleased to announce the upcoming release of a unique and tremendously important anthology featuring the extraordinary talents of the horror genre's finest authors and illustrators. FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN is a collection of thirteen masterpieces of short fiction offers an introduction from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and features the work of Poppy Z. Brite, Owl Goingback, Jack Ketchum, and more. All proceeds of this anthology will benefit Bone Cancer International, Inc. Available for purchase March 1, 2005.
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-U2 vs. Negativland Redux-
Brandon pointed me to the The Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition. If you know the U2 vs Negativland debate, you'll get the intrinsic coolness of this.
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International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments
I've moved the web site for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments from http://virtuallearninghandbook.net to http://virtuallearninghandbook.jasonnolan.net to save some money. Sorry for any confusion it may have caused.
The project is still winding up, and we plan to have it out this year.
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Motivate Me!
Jeremy
shared some
motivation
posters with me. I liked this one.
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Dracula and Anne in Florida
ICFA 26 Schedule: Fantastic in Film and Media conference schedule is up. I'm presenting a paper that Yuka and I have been working on "From the Virtual to the Real: The Construction of Landscape in Anne of Green Gables and Dracula".
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March 01, 2005
We're back...
Yuka and I just got back from France. It has been a great time... family, friends, places, wow. It will take me more than forever to process it all, so if you really want to know what went on, you'll have to show up for dinner.
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