Jon UdellStrategies for Internet citizensA conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life- June 24, 2008 On this week&8217;s ITConversations show I finally got to meet Jean-Claude Bradley, the Drexel chemistry professor who coined the phrase open notebook science and who champions the principles behind it. There were a couple of surprises for me. First, I was intrigued to learn about Jean-Claude&8217;s vision for mechanized research. I&8217;ve always thought of open notebook ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/24/a-conversation-with-jean-claude-bradley-about-open-not... The story of the WorldWide Telescope- June 23, 2008 My guests for this week&8217;s Perspectives are Microsoft researcher Curtis Wong and Harvard-Smithsonian science educator Roy Gould. At Ted 2008 they jointly delivered the first preview of the WorldWide Telescope, an elegant and powerful application for exploring the sky and weaving narratives about it. In this extended interview, you can hear (or read) the whole ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/23/the-story-of-the-worldwide-telescope/ A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth- June 17, 2008 George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics, is one of the recipients of a Microsoft Research grant to support work on the computational challenges of genome-wide association studies. These studies involve scanning complete human genomes, and looking for correlations between certain markers of genetic variation and certain diseases. Doing that correlation is a computational challenge, but as ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/17/a-conversation-with-george-hripcsak-about-electronic-h... Future of the Conversations Network- June 16, 2008 As recently announced by Doug Kaye, the Conversations Network is embarking on a new phase. The existing channels, including ITConversations and Social Innovation Conversations, will continue. But rather than creating more such channels, the Conversations Network wants to help individuals and organizations capture and publish their own spoken-word audio, mainly in the form of events ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/16/future-of-the-conversations-network/ exchange2ical available on CodePlex- June 11, 2008 The Exchange-to-iCalendar script that I mentioned here is now published to CodePlex. It&8217;s intended for organizations that run Exchange and would like to publish selected calendars in iCalendar (aka iCal, or .ICS) format without having to rely on a client machine running Outlook 2007. I&8217;ve never run a real Exchange server, so I&8217;m wide open to ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/11/exchange2ical-available-on-codeplex/ A quiet retreat from the busy information commons- June 10, 2008 Nick Carr&8217;s essay in the current Atlantic Monthly crystallizes a lot of what I&8217;ve been feeling for a couple of years about how our use of the Net is changing us. Not co-incidentally I read the essay in the printed magazine whose non-hypertextuality I experienced as a feature, not a bug. (Nick writes: &8220;Unlike footnotes, ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/10/a-quiet-retreat-from-the-busy-information-commons/ A conversation with Harry Lewis and Ken Ledeen about technology, society, and Hedy Lamarr- June 9, 2008 On this week&8217;s Interviews with Innovators show I spoke with Harry Lewis and Ken Ledeen, two of the three authors of the forthcoming book Blown To Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. The book explores why information technologies continue to produce surprising outcomes, and how society responds to them. One of the ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/09/a-conversation-with-harry-lewis-and-ken-ledeen-about-t... Serious uses for YouTubes new popup video feature- June 6, 2008 I&8217;m loving YouTube&8217;s new video annotation feature, which Phil Shapiro alerted me to. Lots of people are going to have lots of fun with that. If you remember when MTV first started doing popup video, you&8217;ll have some idea how much fun. But from Phil&8217;s perspective and mine, this is a seriously useful tool as well. ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/06/serious-uses-for-youtubes-new-popup-video-feature/ Questions for Exchange admins about public calendars- June 6, 2008 To complement my series on client-side calendar publishing, I&8217;ve been looking for a way to push ICS files from Exchange. Why A couple of local organizations with calendars I&8217;d like to include in my calendar syndication project are running Exchange. It&8217;s true that individuals within those organizations can use Outlook 2007 to publish calendars to ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/06/questions-for-exchange-admins-about-public-calendars/ A conversation with John Buckman about Nazi invaders from the moon (and other things)- June 3, 2008 My guest for this week&8217;s Interviews with Innovators is John Buckman, a serial entrepeneur with a passion for the world-changing possibilities of online communication. I was a customer of his first company, Lyris, whose email list manager I once deployed for a client. A few years later we met at SXSW, where John showed me ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/06/03/a-conversation-with-john-buckman-about-nazi-invaders-f... |