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Archive for May, 2004

May 20th, 2004

Mark Bernstein is “intrigued” by the fact that more people talk about moleskins than the value of software. Isn’t that comparable to small talk just before you enter the room to a critical meeting with you partners. You need something to warm up or to cool down.
BTW: I’m not so sure about the issue either GPL vs.

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May 20th, 2004

It seems as if Gerfried Stocker, artistic head of the Ars Electronica, is leaving. His position is advertized in the ZEIT.



May 19th, 2004

All I ever wanted was a moleskin jacket.

Moleskines

Lots of Tinderbox users also like to keep a handy paper notebook. And their favorite notebook seems to be the Moleskine.

So, I spent yesterday working to learn about stationery, and shortly Eastgate will be selling Moleskine notebooks to go with your Tinderbox.

[Mark Bernstein]



May 19th, 2004

Sifting thru this excellent paper by Thomas, Kellog, Erickson – published in 2001 – on knowledge management and human and social factors I constantly think of weblogs – I’m pretty sure that’s idiosyncratic – and those manifold attempts to attach metadata to posts. The paper I mention above is at one point talking about stories and storytelling, and about inventing a Story Markup Language.

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