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By alex | Published: 10/4/2005
What does good powerpoint look like? It looks like this. Also a great intro to sxip, of course. I first heard about sxip about a year and a half ago? When is it going to blow up?
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del.icio.us for class

By alex | Published: 10/4/2005
I have just heard from one of the systems seminar participants (“seminarians” would save a word; alas…) that there is some consensus that the readings for this week are “on” del.icio.us. In fact, they probably are, but they haven’t been tagged in a way that is immediately obvious, and no one in the class has […]
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather […]
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Congress Abandons WikiConstitution

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
Apropos our discussion this week, the following newsbrief from my most trusted mainstream news source: WASHINGTON, DC–Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. “The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. “But when so-called […]
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