MnBits for Apr 22, 2005
It’s Friday. Time to go through the week’s leftovers…
Macradobe
Since Macromedia’s days are now numbered, take a stroll down memory lane with a history of Macromedia products. Remember Drumbeat? Xres? Soundedit 16? Extreme 3D? Fontographer?
Open Source for Democracy
Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential is a report from Demos, a “greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think-tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.” From the email sent out: “The subject of [the] paper is our belief that open source projects like Wikipedia and Linux offer a range of lessons transferrable to public issues from drafting legislation, to academic peer review, to media regulation.”
Our Fabulous Radio options
Mix 104, our local 80′s station, is now JackFM…perhaps the worst name yet? Format changed from “best of the 80′s” to “best of the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s” aka “Cheapo’s unsellable bargain bin of overplayed crap from the past 3 decades”.
Other updates
Joe pointed out yet another ‘bookmark sharing’ system: Sitebar (and the accompanying sitebarsidebar FF extension. This is one you can install on your own server.
As a follow-up to last week’s Open Source for Designers post, Vanessa mentions Scribus, an open source page layout application like QuarkXPress.
