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http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/
open_demonstrators/hp-requirements-specification.html#APECKS

I’m not sure my brain can quite contain this. If you were looking for a starting place in which to see the collision of the semantic web and blogging (and, indeed, other collaborative environments) you could do much worse than this. Extensive citations leading to rich and rewarding places, including things like Kaon, an “ontology management environment” at http://kaon.semanticweb.org/. – SWL

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/
WCE/archives/labmgmt.html

I spend so much of my life focusing on online education, and have been located off-campus now for too long, that I end up forgetting the importance of classroom-based computing. Having a lab setup that works reliably and is also flexible can be a real challenge, and those of us who have worked in institutions where it works often take it for granted. Once you start to travel to different campuses, you get a real appreciation for how difficult it is to find people who can balance the need for control with the need for flexibility that is the challenge of lab computing. – SWL

– via [Educational Technology]

http://www.newsgator.com/

I seem to be pretty happy using the Radio aggregator over http from my home machine (although it sucks when it goes down) and I’ve dabbled with both amphetadesk and netnewswire, but I just had to download this one when I came across it via Chris Pirillo’s blog. It adds an aggregator into outloook, which for better or worse is the email environment we have here at work and where I end up spending a good portion of my day. So along the lines of anything that allows me to do more things in fewer different application environments, I had to check it out. We’ll see how it works with the ‘publish’ side of publish-and-subscribe, though. –SWL

http://www.affero.org/

The architecture seems simple enough within the mailing list context – links with unique identifiers are generated for the footers of each message sent through the list that link to the sender. By clicking on the link you can add comments to a central database about that sender, and over time create a ‘reputation’ based on ones contributions. I haven’t really played around with some of the blog-related tools that seem to do similar things, so I don’t know if in fact they do similar things. Do they?

Plus I just love the Albert Einstein quote they have on their site: “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – SWL

http://www.kubisoft.com/

“Kubi Client extends existing Email infrastructure investments by using the existing Exchange and Domino messaging platforms and proven SMTP infrastructure. Unlike traditional collaboration tools, Kubi Client uses existing corporate Email directories and authentication mechanisms, providing single sign-on and simple, accurate addressing of user names.”

Now this seems exciting to me. We have a distributed project team that uses heterogenous email environments (Exchange/Outlook, Notes/Domino). Project collaboration has proven to be an ongoing struggle because of this. Separate collaboration environments (at least ones that acts as ‘containers’ and not ‘conduits’) don’t feel like an option. This on ecould be. now if only I could aggregate RSS in here, and if people with neither client could still interact with this through a web space, and I could stream out materials from the various servers in other standards compliant formats, I would have found project collaboration nirvana. I really must get some work done. – SWL 

– via [Online Community Report]