rejon is Jon Phillips.

I think Edd Dumbill is great. I like his evolutionary update to the usage of the planet type site for the Xtech conference by including the recent changes from the Xtech Wiki, flickr, technorati, and Del.icio.us content aggregation related to Xtech using RSS.

I think this is so vital because so much is happening during a conference that this type of way of harvesting it all as feeds really serves a conference well. I think much better than trying to get someone to collect information, or trying to get conference-goers to download that collective writing software for group notes. Of course, there is the threshold of needing a blog, or participating in these various technology sites. But, obviously, these things are already done by the Xtech crowd and I believe bode well for future business and other types of community-based conferences.

I think this model might also be good for open source projects. I think Inkscape and OCAL could benefit from feeds from the recent changes to the wiki and other updated content.

I have been coming across a lot of fun links. For one, I’ve become interested in Linux gaming: Legends and openquartz.sf.net. I’ve also been checking out web calendars: icalworld and icalshare. I think both of these worlds could take a boost of adrenaline. I’m happy that evolution supports the ics format. I think it is only a matter of time before all these lovely social software sites support ical in a major way (and I know some do).

I see another project that is a diamond in the rough, much like Inkscape seemed back in the day: OpenSync and MultiSync. Now, I need more time!!! I think this project could benefit from consolidation and ways to focus the development community. I think this should start with a general lowering of barriers, and consolidation of the the two projects into the OpenSync.org domain name. MultiSync is becoming the GUI portion of the OpenSync framework, however it would be great to centralize the activity for this project, and OpenSync sounds like a great name. However, if things were centralized more behind MultiSync, that would be okay as well.

I tested DMS installation today and made several notes. It works! Now, I would like to get it moved over to the OCAL repository and then cleanup some of the directions and Makefile.PL misc. debris.

Joseph put up a page on Computational Narratology. I’m looking forward to teaching at SFAI next year and the time that will afford me to get more into what I love…