Multiple meanings/contexts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering (more)

Aaron Parecki: Why I Live in IRC (more)

Audrey Watters profiles the newly-funded Minerva Project plan to create an "elite" university (College Education) from scratch using mostly online teaching. The College Admission-s process will be just like it is now for top schools. Courses will be taught online. The students, however, will live in "dorm clusters." They'll spend their first year in their home country, but then in their sophomore year will move around abroad to other countries' locations. When the university matriculates its first class in 2014, Nelson isn't sure how many of those locations will be ready, but he predicts one location in the U.S., one in Asia, and one in Europe... On its board of advisors is Larry Summers, former Harvard President and former Secretary of the Treasury; Patrick Harker, President of the University of Delaware and former Dean of the Wharton School of Business; Senator Bob Kerrey; and Lee Shulman, Emeritus Professor of the Stanford School of Education. Wow, $20k/yr is pretty expensive for that. But interesting. (Update: I'm pretty sure it's $10k for tuition and $10k for room/board, which is much different.)

David Mertz [has](http://gnosis.cx/T Pi P/) the entire text of his Text Processing in Python book ISBN:0-321-11254-7 free online. (more)

Feature where, as a user types, Real Time lookups are performed against some dictionary, feeding back possible match-words from which the user can pick to complete the typing of the word without pressing any more keys. (more)

Dan Whaley of HypothesIs hopes that Rap Genius' $15M won’t go into another closed Annotation System. When we began to explore this ourselves, and began to realize just how many others had come before us, we assembled a spreadsheet of over 50 past and present efforts–beginning with the godfathers, Third Voice and U Tok, and including many well-intentioned projects since then, such as Reframe It and Google’s own, ill-fated SideWiki project. It was our analysis of these projects and a year of research and interviews with many of their founders and key individuals that led us to the conclusion that the only way forward was with an open source, open standards and fundamentally non-profit (though financially sustainable) approach. In conceiving Hypothes.is, we articulated a set of 12 principles to reflect this.

founder of HypothesIs

cf Annotation Systems (more)

*A disc jockey (abbreviated D.J., DJ or deejay) is a person who plays recorded music for an audience, either a radio audience if the mix is broadcast or the audience in a venue such as a bar or nightclub. In venues such as a club event or rave, this is an audience of dancers. Originally, "disc" (uncommonly spelled "disque" in French[1] or commonly "disk" in American English)[2] referred to phonograph records, not the later compact discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter which medium is used (e.g., vinyl, CDs, iPods, etc). The title "DJ" is also commonly used by DJs in front of their real names or adopted pseudonyms as a title to denote their profession and the music they play (e.g., DJ Pierre). (more)

see GeniusCom

Google Sidewiki was a web Annotation tool from Google, launched in September 2009 and discontinued in December 2011. Sidewiki was a browser extension that allowed anyone logged into a Google Account to make and view comments about a given website in a sidebar. Despite the name, the tool was not a collaborative Wiki, though the comments were editable by the author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki

A couple times recently I noticed large chunks of old music I love (David Bowie, Talking Heads) being played in restaurants and such. And then it struck me, I'm not just Middle Age Man, I've become Muzak Age Man! (more)

Jan'2013: joined HypothesIs as the Director of Scholarly Communications. (more)

see Hip-Hop

Jon Udell is now Product Manager at HypothesIs. I’ve long imagined a standards-based annotation layer for the web. Now’s my chance to help make it real.

Venessa Miemis is going through a Jim McCarthy BootCamp. The outcome of the past two days is that my focus has been sharpened and honed on some critical components for forming extraordinary teams that can Ship, scaling, and ultimately impacting epic cultural transformation.

Article on Terry Teachout's H L Mencken biography. Mencken believed that the Novel should above all report. It should tell the truth about life as it is lived and never, ever preach... If you were new to Mencken, you might come away from this book with the notion that he was the most fearless and gifted Journalist of the last century, but you'd first ask why we still read such a creep.

The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson Mo, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown, a young black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white Police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of an unarmed man and the resultant protests and civil disorder received considerable attention in the United States and abroad. (more)

Group, mainly on FaceBook, discussing how to help create a world that works for all (inspired by Bucky Fuller) (more)

Should A Wiki Have A Version Control System to show the history of changes for a page? (more)