My True Colors

Like most of what happens to me, I was accidentally in the right place at the right time to be interviewed by the Back Fence Babes Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters about “true colors,” the theme of their then upcoming Back Fence event. If you want to know more about me and my background, this … Read more

Inverge & Cre8Con

For anyone engaged in the creative practices that are generating the continuing convergence of interactive media, technology and culture, Portland, Oregon will come alive next week with the convergence of both the second annual Inverge 2008 Thu-Fri 4-5 Sep at the Gerding Theater and Cre8Con, Sat 6 Sep at the Portland Center for the Performing … Read more

Ubiquity: Everything, Everywhere

A couple of days ago, Mozilla Labs released an alpha version of Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that puts crowd-sourced, powerful, mashup commands a keystroke away in your browser. My first thought was that it was like the Mac OS utility application, Quicksilver, but for the entire web rather than just the local operating system, an … Read more

Tweeting My Horn

Purely by accident, I happened to run into Rick Turoczy (@turoczy) of Silicon Florist fame on the day Steve Woodward (@oregoniansteve), the Oregonian reporter, was interviewing Rick about Twitter. Several of us Portland tweeters ended up helping Rick talk twitter, including the indefatigable Bram Pitoyo (@brampitoyo) and connectrix Katherine Gray (@ThisKat). Not sure we did … Read more

Where is Sakai headed? Or: I want my user-centered mash-up with extra gravy!

Hearing Chuck Severance’s presentation at JA-SIG St Paul 2008 about work on the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 (LTI) standard restarted some thinking I’d already been doing about where online learning technology is (should be?) headed. Severance sketched out a model enabled by IMS LTI in which the online learning environment has evolved into a … Read more

Drupal Wins 2008 Webware 100 Award

For the second year running, Drupal placed in the Webware 100 awards in the Publishing & Photography category. In this publishing category, the only other contender in the top 10 that comes close to matching the flexibility and functionality of Drupal was WordPress, which would probably do well to continue to focus on the blog … Read more