named for Toyota production method (more)

Sakai is a community of academic institutions, commercial organizations and individuals who work together to develop a common Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE). The Sakai CLE is a free, community source, educational software platform distributed under the Educational Community License (a type of open source license). The Sakai CLE is used for teaching, research and collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). Sakai is a Java-based, service-oriented application suite that is designed to be scalable, reliable, interoperable and extensible. Version 1.0 was released in March 2005. As of September, Sakai is estimated to be in production at over 300 institutions and being piloted by considerably more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_Project (more)

ex-MayorOfNyc (more)

Virtual Community for developers (more)

Microsoft's ASP model updated for DotNet. (more)

a Belief in the goodness of Progress, Enlightenment? That what's Modern is good...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (/miːs/ mees; German: [miːs]; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American Architect.[1] He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Modernist architecture. (more)

phrase/aphorism associated with artistic Minimalism (more)

The Data That Turned the World Upside Down (more)

Donald Trump's Chief Strategist Says News Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’. Steve Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

Martin Cagan: Beyond Lean and Agile | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

Ben Shapiro: I Know Donald Trump's New Campaign Chairman, Steve Bannon. Here's What You Need To Know. I have a bit of experience with Bannon, given that I was the editor-at-large of Breitbart News for four years, and worked closely with Breitbart and Bannon (more)

John Cassidy: Steve Bannon's War on the Press. At a cocktail party in November, 2013, he described himself as “Leninist” to the writer and historian Ronald Radosh. In a piece at the Daily Beast, Radosh recalled that Bannon had said to him, “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” (more)

Lane Becker thinks Pownce is competing, not with Twitter, but with Thirty7Signals apps. Pownce is a lightweight productivity app, built on top of the stream, and it has all the pluses and minuses of a productivity app... So, who's the reigning king of lightweight productivity tools online, and who have we been using for that purpose up until now? 37Signals, makers of BaseCamp, Highrise, and Campfire, online apps designed to help people collaborate in a predominantly business but occasional personal setting. (more)

Do we need the concept of a Universal Outbox as an aggregator of our various outputs, similar to our Universal Inbox? Is this part of the Open Social Networking Model? (more)

creator of WithKnown IndieWeb Weblog Engine (more)

model of using Open Source Educational Technology to create free Open Content? (more)

Student-centered counter to LMS. Treats the student as the primary actor/creator, rather than as a Consumer of materials. (more)

danah boyd: The Information War Has Begun. Yesterday, Steve Bannon clearly articulated what many people have felt and known for quite some time when he told journalists, “You’re the opposition party (more)

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design. Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab (more)