January 30, 2003
You Cannot Be Told What Conclave Is... You Must Experience It For Yourself

Here’s a question to liven up your Thursday afternoon: What on Earth is Conclave? As far as I can tell,...

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January 29, 2003
Every Ant Needs a Crumb

The Open Content Network is a project to help overburdened Web servers by spreading content around the network in a...

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January 28, 2003
Solving Puzzles, the Anthill Way

Collective Detective is an online community dedicated to solving various puzzle games by pooling the expertise and intuition of many...

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January 21, 2003
Wikipedia Hits 100,000 Entries

InfoAnarchy is reporting that Wikipedia, an encyclopedia whose contents are completely editable by its readers, has hit its 100,000th entry...

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January 20, 2003
Mapping Connections

Here’s an interesting project — Huminity is an attempt to create a “global visual map of contacts and connections”. It...

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January 19, 2003
Spontaneous Group-Forming: A HOWTO

Over on his blog, Sam Ruby has a good paper describing the different approaches people are using to create software...

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January 14, 2003
Apple Goes On Open-Source "Safari"

Apple has released a new browser for Mac OS X called “Safari” that’s based on open-source technology from the KDE...

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January 09, 2003
Trepia enables "instant community" via Wi-Fi

A new company, Trepia, has just rolled out what looks to be a pretty interesting idea — a way for...

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January 08, 2003
Shirky on LazyWeb

I’ve already written about Ben Hammersley’s implementation of LazyWeb in this space, but a much deeper and more insightful look...

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Mozilla 1.0.2 Released

The Mozilla Project has released the latest version of the stable branch of its browser software, Mozilla 1.0.2. This release...

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January 02, 2003
Visualizing "Blog Tribes"

One of the most interesting things about the Weblog phenomenon is the way groups of like-minded people who maintain blogs...

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Presenting the LazyWeb

Code god Ben Hammersley (author of the new O’Reilly publication “Content Syndication with RSS”) has just rolled out what he’s...

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If that's too hard to understand... well, I'm sorry. There's only so much I can do. I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a miracle worker. (Unless you consider staying employed in this economy a miracle.) I wish I could help you work through your delusional belief that I'm speaking for anyone else but myself. Honestly, I do. But in the end, that's a monkey you'll have to get off your back on your own. Sorry.