Dilbert resorts to PowerPoint to put the CEO into a coma. If he had the ISIS system, however, he wouldn’t need to resort to such treachery . . .

This article poses a challenge for us–how then to use computers to AID learning? i’ve got more comments in my weblog.

as they tend to do, the slashdot crowd has started a delightfully irreverent conversation about amazon dot com’s latest patent on personalization. the comments are found on this page–my favorite is the guy to whom amazon said “people who wear clothes also like . . .” looks like the onus is upon us to […]

some of my responses to Josh’s great points:
3) yes, definitely. it will help organizers plan events better and give those most motivated to attend the chance to ensure their place.4) awesome idea–and let’s not get all altruistic about this, let’s have those screensavers crunching our database numbers and rendering our video!5) each screen can, […]

Hey all,
Here are a few thoughts I’ve been meaning to send to the ISIS list for a long time. I’m sure most of them have been addressed, but I think they are things we need to keep in mind in this crucial design process:
1) How long do we keep user data? (what do we […]

Been talking to friends about ISIS related aspects of their campuses (here over winter break). A couple of interesting tidbits:Penn State has a portal like myStanford which nobody uses. Northwestern has a portal like myStanford which apparently, upwards of 80% of students use avidly (many, setting it as their homepage). This […]

Two weeks ago you would have been hard pressed to convince me that handheld devices are getting critically close to the elbow on the hockey stick adoption curve. Yet it’s now clear. A few factors have contributed to my conversion:Bob and I went to a talk by Howard Rheingold, which we found out about less […]

for those last-minute gag gifts . . . the Power Rangers Deluxe ISIS Command Megazord, “composed of five zords to create the ultimate in Wild Force Power”:
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Protos @ perpetual.stanford.edu. Now they’re accessible from the index page. I added a mac and pc version (the only difference is the use of webcal:// for the mac one and http:// for the pc one when you try to add an event to ical/outlook. let me know if it works).
Ciao,-Kyle

i posted a thing in my personal weblog about a possible future of Birdcage technology–we are truly on the bleeding edge here, and we have the potential to create something completely unique and phenomenally powerful in the world. sweet.