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interest, notrant

Read/Write Reality

The advent of the read/write web is a topic that comes up frequently where I work. Likewise, community contribution and knowledge sharing is popular among people I come into contact with online too, but I don't run into too many people in real life, outside of work, who care much about the idea at all.

Christen Bouffard
November 22, 2006
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interest, notrant, SecondLife, technology

Make Your Next Vacation Virtual

Synthravels wants to be your virtual travel agency the next time you plan a vacation.

Christen Bouffard
November 11, 2006

interest, notrant, technology

Tim Berners-Lee Misrepresented By The Guardian

On his blog, Tim Berners-Lee has posted clarification to a recent interview with The Guardian so that his thoughts would be accurately represented.

Christen Bouffard
November 3, 2006

interest, notrant, tagging

Just What IS iospace Doing?

This is a question I have been mulling in my head for a few weeks now - somewhat passively...and certainly not so much that I would call and interrogate

Christen Bouffard
October 18, 2006

interest, notrant

Links from This Weekend

Power Plastic from Konarka: Light activated plastic (or more specifically, a nano-enabled polymer photovoltaic material) as an alternative energy source. This technology

Christen Bouffard
October 2, 2006

interest, rant, technology

Something Old?

This month's issue of Dwell has an interview with Andrew Dent, material scientist and VP of Material ConneXion.

Christen Bouffard
September 26, 2006

interest, misc, notrant

YouTube Nostalgia

It occasionally happens that I find myself sucked into YouTube, hopelessly lost down multiple rabbit trails wasting hours at a time. There is no longer a need for TV. Somehow, this past weekend I landed on episode one of Saiunkoku…

Christen Bouffard
September 19, 2006
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rant

Vacation and the RV Culture

There is a sub-culture in the States that until a few years ago, I had been oblivious to – RV-ers. The most obvious indicator that you are near a member of this religion is a 10 to 40 foot-long behemoth…

Christen Bouffard
September 7, 2006
2 Comments

interest, rant, software, technology

Blackboard Awarded Patent for LMS Technology

What is this? On 26 July 2006 Blackboard announced that they had been awarded the patent for eLearning technology (no. 6,988,138). Upon reading this patent it occurs to me that they have pretty much patented the concept of the LMS.…

Christen Bouffard
August 13, 2006