Eugene Eric Kim wrote: (01)
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:12:40PM -0700, Eric Armstrong wrote:
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>>Ka Ping Yee was noted in the Merc article the
>>other day, for some of the web-enabling stuff
>>he's done for Dean. Pretty cool.
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> Do you have a URL?
>
> Ping's not a yakker, but he does great work.
>
He does. I count him as an unofficial yakker -- or maybe a
"makker". :_) (02)
The article was by Dan Gillmor, in the Sun, 10 Aug 2003 edition
of the Mercury News (Business Section, pg 9F) (03)
Their web site is www.mercurynews.com, but I don't know if they
archive all of their articles. Dan's is www.dangillmor.com
(dgillmor@mercurynews.com). (04)
Quoting from the article:
"The Dean crew realized that they can't possibly be an
effective clearinghouse for all of the good ideas that
are spawned in the grass roots. That's why they asked
online for help in creating a database designed to help
individuals and groups find each other and draw on each
others' skills. (05)
One is Ka-Ping Yee, a doctorate candidate in computer
science at the University of California-Berkeley, who's
in Cambridge, Mass., this summer on an internship with
IBM. He hopes that the Visible Volunteers site will be
"a hub where people can coordinate their activites and
turn words into action..." (no URL given for this,
although three other URLS are mentioned in the article) (06)
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