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April 04, 2005
Persona - now on MozDev!
I heard Ted Nelson give a talk at Yerba Buena in San Francisco in 1996. He ranted, expertly, wittily, on the excretable state of publishing technology and digital culture. After all I'd heard and read about his work to perfect hypertext tools, I couldn't stand it - I went to ask a question: You've been working on tools for so long, what about all the writing you would have done? Will the tools ever be good enough for you to start creating?
Now I remembering this moment as I struggle to make the architecture I described in my last post - a personality plug-in for Firefox. I'm seeking help, I knew that before - I've specced out an open architecture, so I build the system for myself to use, in a way that anyone else can use it too, to put out their own portable personality modules. Heck this seems like I've bitten off a lot. Gotta keep chewing!
Here's a rough schedule: Finish up coding by April 12. April 12-19 begin to fill in content. April 19-26 expand content beyond initial compositions. Back up plan? Use Greasemonkey.
So far I just have some reading to do, some questions about del.icio.us integration, and a project page up on MozDev - a Firefox plugin development site. I'm going to use persona.mozdev.org to coordinate my designs and hopefully attract some qualified outside expertise.
And then? If I get this think working? I'll be writing my final assignment all over the ever lovin' internet!
Posted by jhall at April 4, 2005 12:21 AM
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LLuna - the Jabber Virtual Presence Project - software for posting chat avatars and chat bubbles over web pages.
Posted by: Justin Hall ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/20041/ctwr518/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 15, 2005 12:14 PM
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