I’ve started reading [bliki]Freedom Evolves[/bliki] again – I’ve had the book on my shelf for a few months but had found it difficult to stick with before. I’ve noticed that one of the ways that I stop myself from finishing “stretching” books (even though I want to learn the contents) is by failing to take notes – I’m going to try to address that by using the Oddments space.
Fathers have been in the news a lot recently, not always to good effect. Even Bob Geldoff has lent his name to the “father’s rights” movement with a recent Channel 4 polemic. In the middle of all this rhetoric and emotion I’ve felt that we’ve been missing hard facts so I was pleased to see that UK family-support charity Parentline Plus has released Hopes, Stress and Love – Listening to fathers based on the issues that fathers raise in calls to the charity’s help line.
I’ve been introducing wikis into my workplace, especially for project teams – not in any forced way but more by making the technology available and starting to use it. Understandably the takeup is mixed but I was most surprised by the very strong aversion expressed by another senior technology manager with whom I have to produce complex joint strategy documents. Last week the opportunity came up to ask “why doesn’t wiki work for you?
Please excuse the mess while I transition to my new site layout… Still to do: Work out what to do about displaying archives list Re-work “print” stylesheet Styling tweaks that I still think are needed Restore search capability Sort out menu bug on category index pages
Several people have blogged Global Knowledge Review, the new venture from David Gurteen. I’m thinking about a longer post on my reactions to the whole document, however in passing wanted to flag something that Lilia wrote in the sample copy that caught my eye. (update – Lilia has pointed me to her original post that spawned this article) It is probably a matter of personal preferences or thinking style, but I always have problems with tree structures.
New media activist Stef Magdalinski has produced a great example of the way new technologies allow people to interact with broadcasters in different ways – the News Online wikiproxy The site proxies BBC News online and does the following things to pages retrieved through it: retrieves a page from News Online, and regexes out “Capitalised Phrases” and acronyms. It then tests these against a database of wikipedia topic titles. If the phrase is a topic in wikipedia, then it’s turned into a hyperlink.
Matt is thinking about modelling the power of different interests. I’m trying to come up with a mathematic model that allows me to expresses interests, their strengths, and how they change over time. My original thinking was simply to model what is current as most interesting and anything prior to that as less interesting on some scale. But I started asking myself questions about how interests are shaped and changed.
Even SAP have blogs now. Still some signs of old fashioned marketing thinking though – you have to register for their “Community” to read the blogs… Via CorporateBlogging
I’ve installed the Three Strikes plugin from Mark Ghosh. Any problems commenting (i.e. keep getting redirected to a strange site) then please let me know by email to blog at this domain. Credit for pointing to the plugin goes to Charles Arthur
Amy Gahran has started documenting patterns of blog posts. 3 of 7 posted so far. I think this a type 2!