Beowulf

Further my infatuation with Old English (OE), sparked by Dr. D. S. Lee's lectures, I just discovered James Rumford's wonderful retelling of Beowulf. The back cover points out the he's used modern English words that come from Old English almost exclusively. The language is beautiful, as is the book design, the length is good for the impatient and there are wonderful touches: after the introduction we meet Beowulf in the original, "Beowulf is min nama" - Beowulf is my name. The final line is also included in OE.

Lucas Gonze and Jon Udell

I listened to this Interview With Innovators. It brings to mind:

• Dr. Lee's discussion in his last lecture on manuscripts about the lack of authorship.
• Duncan Cragg's microweb
• All the cataloging stuff about work and manifestation, etc. and the LibraryThing version of that.
• Clay Shirky's talk at the Long Now Foundation.
• Being useful. - serving
• Ride match
  

This is a very unfocused talk, but very worth while.

• audiokatia
• rss
• and Jon's frustration at its limit adoption
  
• syndication
  
• Bitzi
  
• provides a unique identifier for a file
  
• syndication
• music playlists
• curating