"After a bit of work we believe we have solved most of the practical problems that have to be taken care of before starting a free journal. This is probably the easy part. Now we have to decide if it is a good idea or not.

The aim is to have a high quality journal for the CG community that is run by the CG community and free to everyone (really free, no cost to publish and no cost to access). Obviously such a journal needs the support of the CG community to be successful. The work should be shared among the community, i.e., the editorial board and editorial manager(s) should be replaced regularly. "

"While it’s fantastic to be able to instantly download an album from iTunes or Amazon.com to your iPod, many classic recordings will never make the jump to a digital store. If your music collection stretches back several decades, odds are you have at least a few beloved analog titles on cassette or vinyl. They need not languish unloved and unheard simply because they’re in an old format. With just a few steps, very little money, and a reasonable amount of time, you can bring those classic recordings into the digital era."

"The Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library will have a Fund Raiser in the form of an Auction on Friday, March 20th, 2009"

"Mass collaboration differs from mass cooperation in that the creative acts taking place requires the emergence of jointly developed shared understandings. Conversely, group members involved in a cooperation needn't engage in a joint negotiation of understanding (from which shared understandings emerge), they may simply execute instructions willingly.
Another important distinction is the borders around which a mass cooperation can be defined. Due to the extremely general characteristics and lack of need for fine grain negotiation and consensus when cooperating, the entire Internet, a city and even the global economy may be regarded as a mass cooperation. Thus a mass collaboration is more refined and complex in its process and production on the level of collective engagement."

"Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person maintains a “reputation” that is based on a “thank you” that is received from the person they have donated to. A tracking system monitors the “carrying capacity” of donations. “thank you” assignments to participants are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a whole.
Total satisfaction, plus a “thank you” (which is seen in the system as individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory receipt of donations (where you “thank” the other person, and thus add to their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met, would then give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain total “health” of the system. The system should also reward those who give to those with higher total reputations."

"The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the principles do not change. If anything, applying these principles become even more important."

"These are ten general principles for user interface design. They are called "heuristics" because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines."

"Collabforge is developing the online collaboration strategy for what will be a Web portal that helps Australians to find, navigate, understand and act on federal, state and local government environmental efficiency programs. The site will provide information for households, schools and small businesses, and is investigating options to best engage the public including via social media and web 2.0 opportunities."

"This page (and sub-pages) contains a list of data related to Ann Arbor. Feel free to add pages describing additional datasets. Copy an existing data page to get the correct format, so the data will appear in the summary table below."

"If our biggest foundations could break the habit of cautiously supporting tiny, specific aspects of an organization’s activities and begin ensuring sufficient capitalization and providing multi-year general operating support, we’d go a long way towards fixing at least 2 of the problems I identified at the beginning of this post. (The good news is that I’m starting to see a few moves in this direction, but that’s a subject for another post…)"

"Also, over time, as more and more younger developers join the ranks through
established apprenticeship programs, they will write less and less of the
crap code. From the start, they will learn techniques to help improve the
code they write. With the day-to-day help and guidance of an experienced
mentor, they will be saved the frustration of a lot of the 'crap code'
mistakes that I, at least, had to make in order to learn the path that I'm
on now to better my own skills. "

"If you're a conservative and you care about this kid, you don't give him a public forum. You give him your card, and you take his e-mails. You give him a list of books that he needs to read. Then when you see him, you quiz him on those books. You tell him that you're glad he showed the initiative to write and publish himself, but his thesis is actually banal. That if he's going to play in the big leagues, he should expect to get hit and prepare himself thusly. You warn him away from sideshows, and teach him to pride hearing over being heard. You teach him that these are his weapons and his shield in the great war of ideas."