By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 4suite
According to 0xDECAFBAD, 4suite "installs like Buddha". More...
Gospels of Failure
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gospels of Failure
Fascinating article on organizational failure. And if you mapped this article to my recent talk on blogging communities, you would find a near-perfect fit. More...
IBM Backs Open-source Web Software
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IBM Backs Open-source Web Software
IBM is announcing support for PHP. I would rather it were Perl, because I find PHP cumbersome. Still, it's absolutely a move in the right direction, and I'd much rather work with PHP or Python than Java. More...
Future of FLOSSE: Interview with Stephen Downes - Part 1
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Future of FLOSSE: Interview with Stephen Downes - Part 1
FLOSSE continues with its series of interviews, releasing part 1 of its interview with me today. As they did with Alan Levine, extrapolated from my remarks is a timeline of projected future events. Interesting. More...
Going Home - Our Reformation
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Going Home - Our Reformation
If you read one thing this week, read this. One commentator described it as "brilliant... and beautiful... and inspiring." It is all of that, and more. It is a vision I support and that I and many other people I cite in this newsletter are working toward. The theme of coming home will likely resonate in my work for a long time. More...
Nokia and Microsoft Bridge OMA-WMA Gap for Mobile Devices
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nokia and Microsoft Bridge OMA-WMA Gap for Mobile Devices
This announcement is, as the author suggests, a bombshell - on several fronts. One front is the obvious: the mobile device industry is no longer banding together to keep Microsoft out of its back yard. On another front, it gives Microsoft leverage against proprietary formats being offered by Apple and Sony. More...
Out Firefoxed
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Out Firefoxed
So Microsoft has announced that - after a long period of "frozen" browser development, it is going to upgrade Internet Explorer. Having just spent the last few weeks in a design project (more on this in a couple of days) I can only say: it's about time. Maybe IE will actually implement CSS as written, instead of doing things that are downright weird. More...
Deloitte Survey Finds Looming Talent Crisis Threatens Companies
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Deloitte Survey Finds Looming Talent Crisis Threatens Companies
The focus of this article is the impending talent shortage that will hit western economies in just a couple of years. It cites "retirements, a widening skills gap driven by declining educational standards, and outdated and ineffective approaches to talent management." Added to this should be as well the emergence of a young and talented work force in India, east Asia and China. More...
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
Miltiadis D. Lytras announces "that the inaugural double issue of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, published by Inderscience, is available from our official web site." The issue starts off with a manifesto which is itself well worth a look, even if only for the useful diagrams mapping the field the journal intents to cover. More...
From RSS To PDF: Acrobat 7 Does It
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From RSS To PDF: Acrobat 7 Does It
I personally cannot see any good use for RSS in PDF files. But others might - so here is the link. More...