Wednesday, 16. May 2007

Talkin With Talis - Nice collections of Podcasts about the Semantic Web

Talis, the company that recently hired Danny Ayers, has a fine and excellent collection of assorted Podcasts of interviews with Semantic Web aficiandos. The quality of the interviews is low, they are recorded via Skype. Nethertheless, you will hear many people remembering many stories about the semantic web.

here are the podcasts:
http://talk.talis.com/

for the impatient, feed your iPods this munchy url:
http://talk.talis.com/index.xml
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New Book: Beyond the Desktop Metaphor - Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Mary Czerwinsky and Victor Kaptelinin have edited a book about future desktop metaphors.
More you can find out via the cover at rickbs website

Here is what they say themselves, copy-pasted from the first chapter:

The objective of this book is to present and discuss new approaches to designing next-generation digital work environments. Currently the most pervasive computer systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, are based on the desktop metaphor. For many users and designers, these are the only digital work environments they have ever known. It is all too easy to assume that the desktop metaphor will always determine our experience of computer systems. The present book challenges this assumption. Its point of departure is an understanding that desktop systems as we know them may well represent a temporary—if hugely successful—phase in the development of interactive environments. Future systems may further develop, modify, or even abandon the metaphor.

I can only add: for me, the Semantic Desktop is only the first step needed towards cyberspace! Lets make new metaphors! (as blogged before one two three times)

If you like Semantic Desktop, think about buying this book. For me, the reasons are threefold:
  • First, I chatted with Mary Czerwinsky over a cup of coffe in Kaiserslautern, back in January 2005 and she said she is preparing a book on future desktop metaphors - aha! Nifty I am, I added a todo to my organizer to remind me a year later if the book is there - it was not, but I moved the todo to remind me in another year...
  • Second, I recently tried to find out more about Richard Boardman, who is my secret hero for completing a PhD (btw: how could anyone ever ever finish a PhD?), and he blogged about the book, because he is in it. Reading his blog, it hit me: that is the book.
  • Third, because my clever Diploma Thesis student Danish Nadeem has found the book and recommended it to me. That was another reminder saying: you should buy this book NOW
So, I had a todo-item in my organizer saying "buy the future desktop metaphors book from Mary", which I today, after 17 months, can close. Three cheers to Mary Czerwinsky and Victor Kaptelinin for making it! Thanks for Danish to remind me.
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tyuityu (guest) - 28. Jul, 12:06

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buy the future desktop metaphors book from Mary

leobard - 8. Aug, 09:27

I did

after I blogged this.

Now you have to buy "Keeping found things found" from William Jones, it looks sexy and is by a pro.
John (guest) - 6. Sep, 15:00

book

The screw as we know it was invented in the 5th century BC, I think it is time we modernize a perfectly working piece of kit based on a well understood metaphor just because is 2008.

Come on people, wake up! there is nothing bad with the current desktop metaphor/concept, what is wrong is the massive clutter KDE 3.5 has in some areas, or the stupid over-simplicity of Gnome in others.

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