Knowledge Notebook

Big Blue Joins OpenOffice

IBM has joined the OpenOffice community and intends to contribute accessibility and other enhancements. This may be predictable to those following IBM’s commitment to the open source movement, but to governments and large organizations this support will make adopting the open document standard a more viable option.
M$ has been trying to squeeze more time […]

Posted at 9am on 9/10/07 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

44 Blackboard Patents Under Review

If you work in higher education, Blackboard is the 800 pound gorilla. Now open source advocates are challenging 44 of their patents. In an effort to gather evidence of previous work they created a fascinating Wikipedia article on the subject. See History of Virtual Learning Environments. I think Douglas Engelbart is […]

Posted at 12pm on 12/1/06 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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You’ll find me talking into the ether here about personal knowledge management, document engineering and semantic web. I try to relay ideas and links here that pertain to my team, b/c I always forget about social bookmarking. I like to write here before all things are lost to cranial entropy.

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