freshmeat.net: Project details for Tulka Whiteboard - Tulka is a Java-based communication tool designed for e-learning with an integrated chat and a shared whiteboard. It is possible to upload and display of various (ps, dvi, pdf, rtf, html, doc) document formats to the whiteboard. Only a Java enabled Web browser is required on the client side, so there is no need to install anything on the client side.

Possibility for use with conferencing.

2:28:53 PM    comment []  

It looks like Dave Winer is over at the opening session at OSCOM: You Can't Make Money in Open Source! The ever-mischievous interlocutor Charlie Nesson is moderating. John Palfrey, meanwhile, sets the stage:

A few thoughts as the three-day Open Source Content Management (OSCOM) Conference opens here this morning in Cambridge on the HLS campus [...].

* Interoperability of open source applications (including interop of blogging tools, which Dave Winer will address in his keynote and on his blog);

* Whether or not there's a sustainable business model in open source ("You can't make money in open source" is the title of the first panel, which Professor Charles Nesson is moderating);

* The interrelationship of various IP protections for open source, including a discussion of what the GPL really means and a look at various alternatives, including Creative Commons licenses; and,

* The production model of open source, a la Professor Yochai Benkler's recent "Coase's Penguin" article, which is a must read if you haven't already.

Here's that article by Yochai (PDF).

Finally, check out the Conference Coverage page; I'm betting there will be more material up there shortly.

1:29:13 PM    comment []  

Blogs: The Next Big Thing - by John C. Dvorak - The Blogging phenomenon, which recently drew much attention because of the purchase of Blogger by Google, will become the next big computer fad if it hasn't already. And I don't mean fad in a bad way. I don't want to argue with various bloggers about the fact that blogging has been going on for years already. That's beside the point, as is clear if we compare blogging to two similar über-fads—the CD-ROM business and the dot-com phenomenon. Both had been going on for years before they were suddenly catapulted into the mainstream in a big way. Blogging is following this exact path. (If you haven't seen my previous commentaries on blogging, please read these three columns: "The Blog Phenomenon", "Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto", and "Deconstructing the Blog". - PC Magazine

Well there you have it, blogs are the next big thing, I hadn't really noticed.

11:07:12 AM    comment []