Archive for December, 2006

Virtual conferences

Friday, December 8th, 2006

To: Value-Networks@googlegroups.com From:Andrew.Webster, kingbridgecentre.com Subject:Networks and Collaboration
Wow, now that is a ridiculously broad subject line.
To begin concisely, I was hoping there may be some good ideas out there for how to use social networking tools as a means to begin conversations virtually and asynchronously before meetings or conferences. I have experienced several, but nothing satisfactory […]

American cop language confuses the force. How wikis can help.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]

Zoundry causing display errors in my blog. (Resolved)

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

You may have noticed yesterday this site’s not displaying the background. This post is in two halves: 1) implications for typical users of Zoundry and Wordpress, and after the (more…) 2) My notes to investigate why this happened. The latter half of this post is more technical.
Symptoms: a) the site’s background chocolate wrapper image appeared […]

Zoundry: multiple trackbacks are maybe possible, but the UI is incomplete

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Zoundry: submitting multiple trackback addresses with a single post.
I’m using v1.0.36. http://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?p=1196#1196 says:
Developer Release Version 1.0.29 (June 29, 2006) says:

8. Multiple trackback support - Episode I:You can now enter a comma separated value (CSV) list of trackback urls. The only problem is theUI for this has not changed i.e. you really cannot see much once […]

RSS overload?

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

There are so many people and good topics in the Blogosphere, its very easy to get overloaded with postings. This article is my investigation of how to blend and filter RSS feeds using Digg, how much of Digg accomplishes what I want, and thoughts of how Digg might in the future extend its functionality to […]