Via Kottke: Thursday happenings @ Etech

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Looking ahead to what's on tap for today at Etech, there's Alan Kay -- inventor of the Smalltalk programming language -- talking about why the computer revolution hasn't happened yet, Macromedia's Kevin Lynch on personal interfaces, the all-powerful Clay Shirky (all hail Clay, for he is our God!) talks about the group getting in its own way in social software, Coates on UpMyStreet, Gillmor on Jour... [kottke.org]

Jason Kottke is providing the best coverage of the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. He is posting specifically about ETech here.

Internet Bookmobile at Etech

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Brewster Kahle is currently speaking about the Internet Bookmobile. It'll be downstairs after the session and you can get your own book printed. Donations for the continued operation of the Bookmobile are appreciated.Update: My photos of the Bookmobile. (Journalists and others: feel free to use the photos with attribution. Thanks!)... [kottke.org]

Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted about the Internet Book Mobile.An effort by Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive. A very interesting project from the Brewster Kahle and the folks at the Internet Archive. If you haven't seen the Archive, take a look. Is fun to look back at various generations of a web site. For example, the Buckman School in the fall of 1996. I forgot about a lot of that stuff... :-)

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Hammersley on TypePad...

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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Battle of the blog builders The standout feature is the template maker. Users can design their blog without knowing, or seeing, any HTML code whatsoever and with a very great range of control.

Other features include real-time statistics, posting by email, and automatic creation of Friend of a Friend data - instantly taking an experimental standard and taking it to the mainstream.

This looks very interesting. I have teachers who want to use MovableType, and would gladly pay to have it hosted...