Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category

Forums and Wikis: Providing conversation-knowledge linkage for Wordpress MU

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Below is a copy of an email I sent to Wordpress Pro mailing list addressing the dynamic between information stored in a wiki and knowledge spurred on by conversations in a forum. In it I make recommendations as to why and how to link the two assuming that the community won’t shift to a pure […]

Feedwordpress wiki for users contributions

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I know Charles is really busy, so I’ve set up a wiki for Feedwordpress at http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/ ; it would be better if Charles put a wiki for Feedwordpress at radgeek.com, but until he does, at least people who need to use his software can collaborate with one another.

WikiSym2008 - I’m Chair for Demos and Posters

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A bit of news - I’ve been asked to be on committee to hold the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008 in Portugal this September.
This is great as I’ll not only see breaking ideas as they happen around the world, but also be responsible to evaluate them and help them […]

Blog fixes

Monday, February 25th, 2008

At PodCamp Toronto yesterday I sat next to someone who tried to comment on my blog. It failed! I’ve fixed it up (it broke after an “upgrade” last year). Please email me if you notice it fail.

Quick plug for Onaswarm.com

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I’m just going to give a quick mention for Onaswarm, a product of Toronto firm BlogMatrix, and run by my friend David Janes.
The web has seen a plethora of sites become platforms, each site now holding some fragment of our digital lives. From that stems a problem: many of us find our attention fragmented across […]

Wirelessnorth.ca launches with news of the Opening of the Canadian Telco Market.

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Shove over Rogers, Bell and Telus.

I’ve been long griping about the Canadian Telcos and their stupid, exorbitant data rates:

[Canadian oligopolistic Telcos] will only voluntarily drop their prices if they thought that they’d make more money by doing so. Their duty is to please their shareholders, not the public, though they could stand to make much […]

Pseudo Cron Dashboard Display for Wordpress

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Wordpress 2.0 introduced a mechanism for programmers and plugin authors to schedule programmatic tasks to be run at designated times in the future. Glenn Slaven in his article Timing Is Everything does a great job of describing how this works. (Sadly, Wordpress’s convention is that people write Wordpress documentation to their blogs rather than contributing […]

Snippets from Office 2.0: Opening panel on the use of Office 2.0 suite of products.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

What is the Future of Work using Enterprise 2.0 technologies?
It’s the wrong vision to take today’s apps from the desktop and put them out to the web. Instead, innovation will be from finding new simple apps that do new, different things.
You have to look at the value proposition: reduce costs, improve productivity. Look back at […]

Shorter posts

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Looking back on my blog writing tool, I have something like 50 unsent posts, and that’s after I’ve deleted those I’ll never want to share.
Therefore, I’ll pushing for shorter posts, especially when reporting events such as Conferences.

I’m speaking at Office2.0 on mindmapping and culture of Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]