The folks at Adaptive Path are using the moniker AJAX for the use of javascript auto-updates on web pages that make interaction less of a chore since updates can be accomplished without reloading the page.

The Academy is a creative entrepreneur programme run by NESTA which aims to fuse the creative impulses of business and art.

“At Bay Networks, Dale Mead’s challenge was twofold. First, he had to understand how some 7,000 employees thought about each particle in the ocean of information that was swelling the company’s database. Then he had to decide how to package it, slicing and dicing and referencing and cross-referencing so that most people could find more stuff with less effort most of the time.”

Slashdot provide some long awaited answers from Mark Shuttleworth of space-flight, education and Ubuntu linux fame.

Saturday 4 June 2005,¬? 10.30??⢃?ì18.30

This conference asks how curators can respond to new forms of self-organising and self-replicating systems, databases, programming,  net art, software art and generative media, and in general to systems of immaterial cultural production. What new models of curatorial practice are needed to take account of shared, distributed and collaborative objects and processes?

Erik M??ller writes about the possible difficulties for independent content producers and a free content economy posed by the explicitly no-commercial use Creative Commons licence.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655

A comprehensive Seybold report on applications for XSL-FO. Whilst acknowledging that desktop publishing applications are requirements for certain publishing applications, such as live author/designer collaboration and projects which require extensive creative labour, this report highlights the usefulness of XSL-FO template based publishing in reports and documents, regularly produced documents that don’t require custom layouts, and documents which require large amounts of information to come from a database.

A summary of the state of the art from digital-web magazine

This is a pretty straightforward resource covering most of the bases for getting up and running with multimedia streams using SMIL