Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Moving WordPress: redirects
I recently moved my blog from http://alexandrasaamuel.com/blog to http://alexandrasaamuel.com. That involved not only moving my actual WordPress program files but also figuring out how to redirect visitors following outdated links to my old content. Today the...
International Conference on Engaging Communities
The UN is sponsoring the International Conference on Engaging Communities in Brisbane, Australia, from August 14-17. Speakers include Stephen Coleman and Robert Putnam.
.bed
Our headboard needs an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. We always come up with the best domain names as we're falling asleep, and forget them by the morning. No godaddy jokes, please.
This sheep talks back
On my way back from this weekend's meeting of the Online Deliberative Democracy consortium I had a chance to enjoy the ever-increasing vigilance of US airport security. At the end of my last US visit I ended up at the airport with a colleague who relayed the...
My 10 sites
As promised, I'm picking 10 sites for my bookmark bar; in fact they're pretty much there already. Here's what I'm going to try to live off of for the next week, with no search and no typing addresses into the address bar: My blog's admin page My del.icio.us page My...
Take the 10-site challenge
I'm blogging this from Mike Weiksner's sidekick and it is painful not to have one, bluetooth or no bluetooth. (Its one major shortcoming.) The phenom of mobile browsing - which makes typing a little annoying - reminds me of a favourite question of mine: if you were...
e-Democracy skills training
I was part of a break-out group discussion today on making online deliberation tools accessible. We discussed three facets of this challenge: tool design, user training, and motivating participation. Our conversation began and ended with user training issues, becuase...
Online tools for ODDC: URLs
I'm in Minneapolis for the Deepening Online Deliberation workshop hosted by the Online Deliberative Democracy Consortium. We had a terrific conversation today about some of the tools available for online deliberation and for collaboration among deliberation...
Ambush kills U.S. troops in Iraq
Snip: The suicide car bomb and ensuing small-arms fire killed at least two Marines and four others were missing and presumed dead. At least one woman was killed, and 11 of the 13 wounded troops were female.
The ambush late Thursday also suggested Iraqi insurgents may have regained a foothold in Fallujah, which has been occupied by U.S. and Iraqi forces since they regained control of the city from insurgents seven months ago.
The women were part of a team of Marines assigned to various checkpoints around Fallujah. The Marines use females at the checkpoints to search Muslim women “in order to be respectful of Iraqi cultural sensitivities,” a military statement said.
The demise of Technorati politics?
What's missing from the new and improved Technorati? It seems as if their overview ofpopular blog conversations still includes movies, books, and the top 100 -- but where is their politics page? Until the redesign, Technorati was home to a nifty slice of political...
The Harvard Business Review
Moving WordPress: redirects
I recently moved my blog from http://alexandrasaamuel.com/blog to http://alexandrasaamuel.com. That involved not only moving my actual WordPress program files but also figuring out how to redirect visitors following outdated links to my old content. Today the...
International Conference on Engaging Communities
The UN is sponsoring the International Conference on Engaging Communities in Brisbane, Australia, from August 14-17. Speakers include Stephen Coleman and Robert Putnam.
.bed
Our headboard needs an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. We always come up with the best domain names as we're falling asleep, and forget them by the morning. No godaddy jokes, please.
This sheep talks back
On my way back from this weekend's meeting of the Online Deliberative Democracy consortium I had a chance to enjoy the ever-increasing vigilance of US airport security. At the end of my last US visit I ended up at the airport with a colleague who relayed the...
My 10 sites
As promised, I'm picking 10 sites for my bookmark bar; in fact they're pretty much there already. Here's what I'm going to try to live off of for the next week, with no search and no typing addresses into the address bar: My blog's admin page My del.icio.us page My...
Take the 10-site challenge
I'm blogging this from Mike Weiksner's sidekick and it is painful not to have one, bluetooth or no bluetooth. (Its one major shortcoming.) The phenom of mobile browsing - which makes typing a little annoying - reminds me of a favourite question of mine: if you were...
e-Democracy skills training
I was part of a break-out group discussion today on making online deliberation tools accessible. We discussed three facets of this challenge: tool design, user training, and motivating participation. Our conversation began and ended with user training issues, becuase...
Online tools for ODDC: URLs
I'm in Minneapolis for the Deepening Online Deliberation workshop hosted by the Online Deliberative Democracy Consortium. We had a terrific conversation today about some of the tools available for online deliberation and for collaboration among deliberation...
Ambush kills U.S. troops in Iraq
Snip: The suicide car bomb and ensuing small-arms fire killed at least two Marines and four others were missing and presumed dead. At least one woman was killed, and 11 of the 13 wounded troops were female.
The ambush late Thursday also suggested Iraqi insurgents may have regained a foothold in Fallujah, which has been occupied by U.S. and Iraqi forces since they regained control of the city from insurgents seven months ago.
The women were part of a team of Marines assigned to various checkpoints around Fallujah. The Marines use females at the checkpoints to search Muslim women “in order to be respectful of Iraqi cultural sensitivities,” a military statement said.
The demise of Technorati politics?
What's missing from the new and improved Technorati? It seems as if their overview ofpopular blog conversations still includes movies, books, and the top 100 -- but where is their politics page? Until the redesign, Technorati was home to a nifty slice of political...
OneZero
“Time to have us a good old extension cage match. In one corner you have the Hawaiian punch of the…”
“Time to have us a good old extension cage match. In one corner you have the Hawaiian punch of the link sharing world – Mahalo Share. In the other, weighing in with way too many link sharing resources is Shareaholic.”
– Add-on Cage Match, Mahalo Share vs Shareaholic! | Firefox Facts
“Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. Shareaholic makes it easy…”
Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service.
Xoopit
I’m grooving on this plugin for gmail/firefox that lets me browse all my videos, photos and file attachments in a convenient way.
Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern
As soon as Barack Obama was elected President, in part of the strength of a brilliant online campaign, the blogosphere offered up its ideas on how he could use the Internet to govern, too. This round-up of 50 ideas for e-government offer an enduring source of inspiration for policy-makers in America and beyond.
My Obama mama
My mom turns 70 on November 16th and insists there’s nothing she wants for her birthday other than photos of her grandchildren. I know the one thing that would thrill her even more: being present at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Reframe it offers collaboration in context
ReframeIt takes a pragmatic approach to in-context annotation. Install their Firefox extension and you can annotate any web page, share your annotations with the audience(s) of your choice, and read what other people are saying about that page.
Status update: Twittering your way to effective (and expressive) communication
Like many forms of online conversation, status updates make it easy to confuse the expressive value of communication with the effective value of communicaiton. I’m concerned about the expressive value of communication when I’m “getting something off my chest”, “speaking my truth”, or engaging in some form of creative expression. I’m concerned about the effective value of communication when I’m trying to get you to hear me, listen to me, or understand me.
Comments vs spam
Just realized that the incessant deluge of comment spam had masked a number of comments unrelated to Viagra, porn and serial number cracks. I've approved a bunch of actual genuine comments tonight, some going back to 2007 ....thanks for your patience, faithful...
JSTOR DAILY
“Time to have us a good old extension cage match. In one corner you have the Hawaiian punch of the…”
“Time to have us a good old extension cage match. In one corner you have the Hawaiian punch of the link sharing world – Mahalo Share. In the other, weighing in with way too many link sharing resources is Shareaholic.”
– Add-on Cage Match, Mahalo Share vs Shareaholic! | Firefox Facts
“Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. Shareaholic makes it easy…”
Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service.
Xoopit
I’m grooving on this plugin for gmail/firefox that lets me browse all my videos, photos and file attachments in a convenient way.
Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern
As soon as Barack Obama was elected President, in part of the strength of a brilliant online campaign, the blogosphere offered up its ideas on how he could use the Internet to govern, too. This round-up of 50 ideas for e-government offer an enduring source of inspiration for policy-makers in America and beyond.
My Obama mama
My mom turns 70 on November 16th and insists there’s nothing she wants for her birthday other than photos of her grandchildren. I know the one thing that would thrill her even more: being present at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Reframe it offers collaboration in context
ReframeIt takes a pragmatic approach to in-context annotation. Install their Firefox extension and you can annotate any web page, share your annotations with the audience(s) of your choice, and read what other people are saying about that page.
Status update: Twittering your way to effective (and expressive) communication
Like many forms of online conversation, status updates make it easy to confuse the expressive value of communication with the effective value of communicaiton. I’m concerned about the expressive value of communication when I’m “getting something off my chest”, “speaking my truth”, or engaging in some form of creative expression. I’m concerned about the effective value of communication when I’m trying to get you to hear me, listen to me, or understand me.
Comments vs spam
Just realized that the incessant deluge of comment spam had masked a number of comments unrelated to Viagra, porn and serial number cracks. I've approved a bunch of actual genuine comments tonight, some going back to 2007 ....thanks for your patience, faithful...
