Apple’s MacWorld 2004 Keynote

We stayed home this year; Michael’s book isn’t out yet, and I start teaching next week, and realllly want to finish a few chapters first, so we watched the keynote from home. And one of the most impressive things was the fact that we could. We’re on DSL, but we sat in front of a […]

Nothing New

Macworld San Francisco has started, and Steve Jobs’ key note will be streamed tomorrow at 9:00 AM PST. I don’t have much to add to the guesses I made before last July’s keynote. Clearly the digital hub is still key, and I think we’ll see a lot more about Rendezvous/ZeroConfig, and Bluetooth. […]

Live Journal SIG

Friday morning at ConJosé I attended a Special Interest Group set up by a few Live Journal users. I’ve looked at Live Journal before; of all the various web log systems it seems to be the one most focused on community in the sense of creating communities via links to like minded Live Journal […]

Blog This at Con Jose

I went to the Con José “Blog this!” panel I mentioned here. The panel featured Lucy Huntzinger, Moshe Feder, Evelyn C. Leeper, Bill Humphries, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden. My remarks are somewhat disconnected (and as opinionated as usual) since I only took notes when a specific point struck me. It was also cool […]

More Con José Blogs

Bill Humphries, a Mac user and blogger, is also at the Con, and will be speaking on a blogging panel “Blog This! (or, Blogology Recapitulates Mimeography)” on Saturday 11:30am. The description reads:

What is Blogging and why should you care? This new form of online diaries has taken fandom by storm. The mainstream world is […]

ConJosé the World Science Fiction Conventon

Yes, that’s right, I’m doing something purely frivolous, I’m attending the World Con for most of this week. I’m going to try blogging as well—I figure why not? And I notice there’s a couple of other bloggers here, Cory Doctorow, and Eric Raymond, which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to link to his Cathedral […]

Sundries

Yeah, I know, it’s been a while. I’ve been working on my dissertation, which means less time for the web.
A few notes:
I’ve been using Mozilla for Mac OS X and 9 and like it very much; it’s become my main browser.
I’m off to Apple’s 2002 World Wide Developer’s conference, on a student scholarship, […]

QuickTime Live and Education

QuickTime clearly has marvelous potential for instruction–and lots of us are using it. Apple, with its long time interest in education, targeted educators with some specific sessions. The first one I went to was typical of such things—it was presented by an Apple employee with a background in education and instructional technology, with a hot […]

Apple Keynote Announcements from QuickTime Live

You can see the keynote in streaming QuickTime for yourself, but I’ll cover the basics. First of all, Apple previewed QuickTime 6 with MPEG 4. That’s the good news. The bad news is that because of some truly idiotic licensing proposals from the MPEG-LA corporation, Apple won’t be releasing QuickTime 6 yet. I’ll get […]

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