Collaborative video is the next wave of video content that will take off as users gain the tools to create video mash-ups. See http://wikieducator.org/Collaborative_Video_-_Help_and_Sandbox on how to use the Kaltura system in a wiki (Kaltura is also available as a system in Drupal and many open source projects.) But right now this post is brief because I'm busy with collections, wiki bots and integrating wikis with Drupal.

(And wikieducator.org is another free education site.)

QWebIRC is a web client to IRC http://qwebirc.org/

You can use it to either put a web interface to your IRC server; or more likely, use an embed tag to put a "Chat" page on your site to someone else's server. Works just like Mibbit but is GPL licensed

This is what an embedded client looks like:

Simply choose a nickname, and press "Connect" to join the listed chat channels

RSS news syndication

This website is equipped with a RSS feed that will allow you to stay informed of the new content that is posted in our pages.

By subscribing to our feed, you will automatically receive updated links that will lead you directly to the new content of our site. You never need to wonder if there is something new that you are unaware of or missing an important event because you have not visited the site recently.

We will tell you by means of a RSS feed when changes occur; the moment new content is uploaded to the site.

We have prepared a master feed:

The recent efforts in Congress to pass an energy bill are actually weakening the "Clean Air Act" and putting billions of dollars into coal technology rather than investing in wind, wave, geothermal and solar like we need to. And, the timelines are such that it just makes it seem like we're doing something when actually we're not.

I have several installations of OpenOffice running side-by-side; plus various historical backups of user settings. This article describes how I cleaned it all up and moved from OpenOffice 3.0.0 provided by the http://openoffice.org website to the packaged version provided by the Ubuntu. If you don't have OpenOffice 3 yet, then see this one minute video by LinuxJournal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0EBGnIE5s

I am running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)

Or, how to clean up after your photo-collecting self. Digital photography is great -- until the day you realize that you have over 5,428 photos and have stashed bits and pieces of your collection here or there (with multiple redundant copies).

Bottom line: get fslint to find and eliminate duplicate files on your system.

http://openid.net/ is neat. With OpenID, you can login to all your favorite websites and forget about online paperwork. I added it to the freephile wiki -- because of course that too is one of your favorite websites. (I'm that much closer to enabling a single sign-on across all applications and services provided through Rundlett.com and Freephile.com)

From Simon Baker at the Agile in Action blog:

"Quality goes down and technical debt increases with every corner cut. When prioritized against the next feature promising to deliver business value, debt never gets repaid."

"[Business decision makers] understand the cost of goods returned, the cost of rework, and the loss of customers but they choose to remain ignorant of the fact that these are typically the consequences of not valuing quality"

The Wealth Of Networks
-- Yochai Benkler
(2006)

In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing. [1]

This book is described by Lawrence Lessig as "perhaps the most important book of the 21st century" [2]

If you routinely hit "reply" in your email and keep the entire original message BELOW your reply, please be aware that an information guide to Internet Etiquette 'netiquette' was published in 1995 which provides guidance about how to properly compose a message:

If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
enough text of the original to give a context. This will make
sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the