A while back, I noted with some interest Michael Korcuska’s screencast showing off a prototype of some functionality planned for Sakai 3. Some recent related conversation has come up on the Sakai listservs regarding the possibility of including wiki-like capabilities as core functionality of Sakai 3 and how this might overlap with and complement the […]
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Google Soon Adding JotSpot to Google Apps
Thanks to fellow Oracle blogger Jake Kuramoto for pointing to this ZDNet piece revealing (among other things) that JotSpot is about to become part of the Google Apps package. Long-time e-Literate readers know that I was lucky enough to be able to interview JotSpot’s co-founders in the early history of this blog, and that they […]
Towards an Education Inflected Architecture
The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference. I just love it. An “education inflected architecture” is exactly what I crave. But beyond that, Barbara poses exactly the right challenge: For […]
Is Sakai a Platform or a Product?
Ben Brophy, a UI designer at MIT, muses about whether Sakai is a platform or a product. His initial answer is that it should be both. But he worries about the implications of having it as platform: The conference ended with a Q&A session with the Sakai board members. I asked how decisions about what’s […]
Bloglines: Still Sucky After All These Years
Apparently, Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher replied to June Oshiro’s blog regarding their broken feed reader. June hits the nail on the head with her reply: But Mark! You don’t address the second fundamental problem. I find this ironic and indicative of the whole issue – I complain that customer support is virtually non-existent, and you […]
Group Processes (Including Learning Processes) Should Be Wiki'ed
As many of you know, I am a fan of JotSpot. One of the interesting things that came out of my interview with JotSpot co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer is that they plan to build workflow syntax and functionality into their wiki product. Which brings me to Scott McMullan’s post….
Interview with JotSpot Co-Founders
Update: I have now posted a new (printable) version of the PDF with all DRM turned off. Note that it is located at a new URL. Here it is [PDF]! As you read the interview, I want to suggest that you think about the following words from Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community […]