I would be great to have an online annotation program where someone can post a draft of a paper and others can annotate it right there in the browser. I know there are commercial sites that do this but an open-source solution would be better. Read more »

Here is a cool idea for startup weekends in science by Paweł Szczęsny. Why not combine the ideas of code sprints and distributed teams for doing science? i.e. set up an intense interaction for a short period for a group of researchers with the aim of say, writing a paper, in a week? Read more »

Here is a mindmap plan for an online collaboration tool.

The idea is to base it on django and mercurial with a healthy splattering javascript. It should allow direct (non-web) access for the power user and handle LaTeX projects nicely.

I’ve been experimenting for awhile with svn for collaborative paper writing. It’s got some nice features but has problems too which ultimately means it’s not the way to go:

Too complicated: too much effort is required to be able to contribute to a project - both Read more »

This is very cool: a wii remote + infrared led + projector and you have your own interactive whiteboard:

more details here.

Looks like there's drivers for the wii remote for most platforms even linux, so hopefully we will see a whole lot of programs that make use of it eg driving powerpoint, navigation for croquet, ...

Michael pointed out an interesting use of subversion in teaching. The technique lends itself nicely to monitor and give feedback on students writing a thesis too. Read more »

For a couple of years I’ve been playing around with using ideas from Agile software development and in particular from Extreme Programing for collabora Read more »