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Yearly Rethink

One of the reas­ons I like going to North­ern Voice is that it always gives me lots to think about, in terms of what to write about on my blog, what tech­nical tricks to try out, and how to write bet­ter. Other people choose their blo­giversary, or maybe New Year’s Day, but I find Northern […]

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2007 12 06 Vancouver Comments (0)

Balisage

I used to, some­times, go to a con­fer­ence in Montreal in August called Extreme Markup Lan­guages. Some­times a bit over-the-top geeky for me, but mostly a good exper­i­ence. There’s now a new con­fer­ence in Montreal in August, run by some of the same people and chaired by Tom­mie Usdin from Mul­berry Tech­no­lo­gies, called Bal­is­age (the […]

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2007 11 13 Comments (1)

Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri­vacy, secur­ity, copy­right — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take pri­vacy for example. On many social net­work­ing sites people sign up and then put in all their per­sonal inform­a­tion simply because there’s a field there for it. […]

2007 11 13 Identity and Privacy
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Web 2.0: Process

The third aspect of Web 2.0, which is often under-appreciated, is the pro­cess aspect. This has changed people’s expect­a­tions of what soft­ware can do, and how it should be delivered. This cat­egory includes open source, con­tinual beta and quick release cycles, and some new busi­ness mod­els. Pro­cess Cloud Not all of the things that are important […]

2007 11 12 Presentations
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Moose 2008

Yup, it’s on again. North­ern Voice, that is, for 2008. Feb­ru­ary 22–23, 2008, at the Forestry Sci­ences Centre at UBC, where we held it last year. It will be the same format (Moose Camp uncon­fer­ence on Fri­day, con­fer­ence on Sat­urday), with some sort of party on the Thursday even­ing. More details will appear on the […]

2007 11 11 Vancouver Comments (0)

Web 2.0: Technical

The tech­nical com­pon­ent of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, vari­ous pro­gram­ming lan­guages, plug-ins and wid­gets, and the REST archi­tec­ture. All of these have a role to play in sup­port­ing the web sites that incor­por­ate Web 2.0 fea­tures, while many pred­ate the Web 2.0 phe­nomenon. There are far too many inter­est­ing tech­nical fea­tures for me […]

2007 11 09 Presentations
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