July 2009 - Blog Watch

To say that Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price is generating a lot of discussion would be an understatement. I linked to three posts on Free in the most recent Everyman. Another post worth reading is Cory Doctorow’s review in Guardian News. I felt Free was a somewhat tedious read on the Nordic Track , a lot less engrossing than I anticipated. Perhaps that’s because my expectations were pretty high. Also, having read so many posts on the economics of Free, reading about...

Part of Kaiser Permanente's experiences reflect a lot of the things I'm hearing from other customers. Weber talks about how many of her colleagues really didn't have a good grasp of what everyone was working on, or in some cases, what each person's job role encompassed. She describes how Kaiser devised a collaboration strategy using tools like blogs and wikis for creating content and sharing information. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

Some people contract an artist to design their site, while the rest of us don’t. Artist at Work on Billy Hughes at War. Beautiful. Link to Billy Hughes | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

Beautiful banner graphic. Stylin Download button. Home page news in a stark body area which serves to highlight the page’s banner beauty strength. Link to Mozilla Thunderbird 2 | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

A stylin’ site in the light color band frequencies. Sweet use of the JQuery slide plug-in on the home page. Link to Humbert Oliveira | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

This site is stylin’ because of the crisp beer graphics used throughout the site. Mmmm…crisp beer taste. Link to O'Hanlon’s Brewery | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

One size rarely fits all, and that's no different in online communities. The default user profiles that have been included in the Telligent Enterprise and Telligent Community products work for many people, but you may find that you need to add a couple of fields that fit your community. For example, if you were running a community for dog show enthusiasts, wouldn't you want users to be able to enter what breed of dog they own and list the awards that they've received? In the videos below...

Your Telligent-powered community includes two types of editors: plaintext and enhanced, shown depending on the complexity of the content you provide for that context. For example, wiki pages include the enhanced editor but friend requests just a plaintext editor. When using the enhanced editor it may be helpful to you to use the fullscreen mode to aid in editing, particularly with pages with large amounts of content. For Telligent Community: (Please visit the site to view this media) Read more about...

The Unfinished Revolution: How to Make Technology Work for Us--Instead of the Other Way Around is the second Michael Dertouzos book I read, the first being What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives. Michael Dertouzos was the Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science from 1974 until his death in 2001. Unfinished Revolution was published in 2001. As you'll read in the excerpts, Dertouzos is trying to guide us into thinking about computers as serving human...

We just returned from five days across the border, the Canadian border, vacationing at the Auberge de Lac Morency resort outside of Montreal, Quebec.  It struck me when we returned home that one of the great things about living in Burlington is being able to drive to getaways in another country, which speaks another language, and still have gas left in the tank. A few photos are below.  My vacation photo album is located here. Read More...

You know how I’m a sucker for bold horizontal page areas. The banner animation consisting of images that are well placed to extend beyond the banner region makes this a stylin’ home page. Link to Retrograffica | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

A Planet Changing Podcast. I’m always suspicious when someone says an experience changed their life. People always seems to settle back into their established norms. I’m not going to say this Tech Nation podcast with 90-year-old scientist James Lovelock on the Gaia Theory changed my life, but I can hope the information it provides might possibly change the planet. Concerning Global Warming, essentially we humans aren’t the problem, but our contributions have pulled the trigger on a process that was...