The HTC Vive is a virtual reality headset developed by HTC and Valve Software. The headset uses "room scale" tracking technology, allowing the user to move in 3D space and use motion-tracked handheld controllers to interact with the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Vive

very popular MMORPG/Virtual World/Virtual Community (more)

Jay Rosen: Key steps in the citizens agenda style of campaign coverage. WBUR collaborates on election coverage with New Hampshire Public Radio, which attended the meeting as well. For an academic, the opportunity to float an alternative model to people who could soon put it into practice is not something you turn down. (more)

Jon Li ponders an Audio/EarBud Inter Face. (more)

A hack for Self Improvement in sticking to new habits is visually tracking "Streaks" of days that you successfully follow them. Giles Bowkett has mentioned that as a key technique of his many times, HealthMonth is using it, and Streak Ly is based on it.

Ben Brooks ponders what he wants in Project Collaboration Ware, triggered by his current experience with GlassBoard, Quip, SlackCom, and BaseCamp. (more)

Some systems try to support it (e.g. EMail and NNTP), but most users don't take advantage. (more)

Writing as part of Daily Review; or simply the habit of writing daily (NoteBook)

The Tap wearable chording keyboard looks interesting, esp for use with a phone (and earbud). (more)

aka Hacker, with a focus on working with physical objects (more)

SciFi author. https://rifters.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_(author)

I'm currently reading William Hertling's Avogadro Corp (Hertling Singularity Series) and trying to remember where I ran across the idea of the Singularity (Evolution) being driven by Co-Evolution of SpamWars combatants... (more)

see AARRR

Mac/Windows Free-Form MindMap app (more)

Matthew Butterick wrote Buttericks Practical Typography. He has chosen to deliver it as a WebSite, and not an EBook. If you can show me an e-book for­mat that gives me the same con­trol over ty­pog­ra­phy and lay­out that I can get in a web browser, I’ll con­sider it. He offers multiple ways to compensate him. (Business Models For Information) (more)

renamed PubSubHubBub

IndieWeb/OAuth guy. https://aaronparecki.com/

IndieWeb concept (more)

A big complexity in GroupWare, as noted by Jon Udell, is adjusting the membership of the "group" you're talking to. Or, better, the memberships of the various groups of which you are a member. (more)

"Movement" of people who want to own/control/host their own data at their own Domain. We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos. (more)