Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
NerdTests.com Fun Tests – Nerd Quiz
I am heartbroken to discover that I only rate as semi-nerdy. I think the problem is that my nerdiness is restricted to tech nerdiness rather than general science nerdiness (on which front I score pathetically low). I'll keep my eye out for something that tests...
ctrl-ault-del ” Blog Archive ” Salon and Technorati
Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites.
ctrl-ault-del » Blog Archive » Salon and Technorati
Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites, and while I can imagine some workarounds that would allow sites to effectively achieve this, the…
Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection
The Great Flickr Tools Collection: From Quick Online Tips — the people who brought the world the del.icio.us tools collection — an equally fabulous collection of tools to make your all-Flickr lifestyle that much better. Flickr is a terrific photo sha…
Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation (C2D2)
The first-ever Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation is scheduled for October 27-30 in Ottawa. The web site is now online with lots of opportunity for further input into the conference agenda.
15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) – Tim Yang’s Geek Blog
Tim Yang’s list of fifteen things to do with RSS is the blog meme of the week. Only fifteen! What does he do with all the hours left over?
Keep an eye on this space for many more — today’s posts re: Feedster should give a few hints.
Kitsilano with Character: Your Home in Vancouver
It's official: we're now planning our move to Toronto, aiming for August 05. As a result our FABULOUS house is up for rent or exchange — and our ideal situation is to find some charming soul in Toronto who will trade houses with us for some extended peri
More kudos for Feedster
Another great discovery: Feedster lets you create a feed based on a search that is limited to the feeds listed within a given OPML file. An OPML file is better known as a blogroll -- basically list of RSS subscriptions (such as the one created by Bloglines when you...
Cisco product placement?
On 24 tonight, in the face of a fictional denial-of-service attack, the fictional cyberwhiz of the fictional intelligence agency notes that they're in good shape because "the Cisco network is self-defending."
Tag-friendly Feedster
Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I've been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...
The Harvard Business Review
NerdTests.com Fun Tests – Nerd Quiz
I am heartbroken to discover that I only rate as semi-nerdy. I think the problem is that my nerdiness is restricted to tech nerdiness rather than general science nerdiness (on which front I score pathetically low). I'll keep my eye out for something that tests...
ctrl-ault-del ” Blog Archive ” Salon and Technorati
Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites.
ctrl-ault-del » Blog Archive » Salon and Technorati
Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites, and while I can imagine some workarounds that would allow sites to effectively achieve this, the…
Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection
The Great Flickr Tools Collection: From Quick Online Tips — the people who brought the world the del.icio.us tools collection — an equally fabulous collection of tools to make your all-Flickr lifestyle that much better. Flickr is a terrific photo sha…
Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation (C2D2)
The first-ever Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation is scheduled for October 27-30 in Ottawa. The web site is now online with lots of opportunity for further input into the conference agenda.
15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) – Tim Yang’s Geek Blog
Tim Yang’s list of fifteen things to do with RSS is the blog meme of the week. Only fifteen! What does he do with all the hours left over?
Keep an eye on this space for many more — today’s posts re: Feedster should give a few hints.
Kitsilano with Character: Your Home in Vancouver
It's official: we're now planning our move to Toronto, aiming for August 05. As a result our FABULOUS house is up for rent or exchange — and our ideal situation is to find some charming soul in Toronto who will trade houses with us for some extended peri
More kudos for Feedster
Another great discovery: Feedster lets you create a feed based on a search that is limited to the feeds listed within a given OPML file. An OPML file is better known as a blogroll -- basically list of RSS subscriptions (such as the one created by Bloglines when you...
Cisco product placement?
On 24 tonight, in the face of a fictional denial-of-service attack, the fictional cyberwhiz of the fictional intelligence agency notes that they're in good shape because "the Cisco network is self-defending."
Tag-friendly Feedster
Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I've been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...
OneZero
A new way of thinking about our name
Open source didn’t just open a Pandora’s Box for the software industry — it was the emergence of an entirely new method of production based upon social interaction and low transaction costs…Social signals, rather than price or managerial demands, drive contributions and coordination.
— Ross Mayfield, Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics
Social media for social enterprise: How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0
A social media site thrives on active and ongoing user contribution. That typically demands ongoing infusions of content, skilled animation, participation incentives — all of which cost money.The great news is that social media sites offer at least as many opportunities for revenue generation as for spending.
Can your software or web project pass this test?
“If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”
Change the web, change the world
How we experience the Internet in our daily lives — whether we experience it as a dehumanizing void in which e-mail replaces face-to-face interaction, or as a meaningful community in which we discover new commonalities and connections — is a choice we make every day, with every message we send or browser page we load. Those choices can add up to personal and social alienation, or personal and social transformation.
Vendetta of the month: Christmas (cancelled)
This month’s vendetta: Christmas. Why Christmas? The fact that my Christmas vendetta has to begin on November 6th should say it all. This holiday could be the poster child for scope creep. It starts out as a nice little religious holiday, sing some songs and have a big meal with your friends, and now it’s an entire season.
5 ways to shape the soul of the Internet
We can direct the Internet’s flow towards our most craven instincts (spam, porn, gambling) or towards our vision of what the world can be like (online volunteering, e-giving, digital art). Just as the soul of money, or the role of money in the world, is the product of individual decisions as well as systemic forces, the soul of the Internet can be shaped by how we individually engage with the online sphere.
WANTED: Integration between Remember the Milk and Basecamp
I've been looking into options for improving task management with Basecamp, given my frustration with Basecamp's lack of due dates or task details.
Change status: Facebooking and Twittering for a new world
How to use status updates — like the ones you post to Facebook and Twitter — to help drive social change.
JSTOR DAILY
A new way of thinking about our name
Open source didn’t just open a Pandora’s Box for the software industry — it was the emergence of an entirely new method of production based upon social interaction and low transaction costs…Social signals, rather than price or managerial demands, drive contributions and coordination.
— Ross Mayfield, Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics
Social media for social enterprise: How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0
A social media site thrives on active and ongoing user contribution. That typically demands ongoing infusions of content, skilled animation, participation incentives — all of which cost money.The great news is that social media sites offer at least as many opportunities for revenue generation as for spending.
Can your software or web project pass this test?
“If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”
Change the web, change the world
How we experience the Internet in our daily lives — whether we experience it as a dehumanizing void in which e-mail replaces face-to-face interaction, or as a meaningful community in which we discover new commonalities and connections — is a choice we make every day, with every message we send or browser page we load. Those choices can add up to personal and social alienation, or personal and social transformation.
Vendetta of the month: Christmas (cancelled)
This month’s vendetta: Christmas. Why Christmas? The fact that my Christmas vendetta has to begin on November 6th should say it all. This holiday could be the poster child for scope creep. It starts out as a nice little religious holiday, sing some songs and have a big meal with your friends, and now it’s an entire season.
5 ways to shape the soul of the Internet
We can direct the Internet’s flow towards our most craven instincts (spam, porn, gambling) or towards our vision of what the world can be like (online volunteering, e-giving, digital art). Just as the soul of money, or the role of money in the world, is the product of individual decisions as well as systemic forces, the soul of the Internet can be shaped by how we individually engage with the online sphere.
WANTED: Integration between Remember the Milk and Basecamp
I've been looking into options for improving task management with Basecamp, given my frustration with Basecamp's lack of due dates or task details.
Change status: Facebooking and Twittering for a new world
How to use status updates — like the ones you post to Facebook and Twitter — to help drive social change.
THE VERGE
25 rules of social media netiquette
The quality of our online communities depends on the attitudes and behaviors we bring to it. But Emily Post can’t always help: life online demands new ways of interacting. The term “netiquette” was coined in 1983, the same year that brought us our first list of guidelines for online behavior. The 13 rules laid down in 1983 are still as relevant as ever, but social media has brought new challenges and thus, new best practices. This post rounds up 25 netiquette rules from across the web, covering both longstanding and emergent principles.
6 ways to beat time zones with technology
Picturing the Internet in 1981
