Netvibes has upgraded and added some new social networking features. Hmm, I thought, just what I need. Yet another social networking service, friendship links to create and maintain, and content to post. Little did I know how good it was going to be.
More »I just bought an iPhone. This is, without question, the most fantastic purchasing and setup experience I have ever had with a piece of technology. It even beats my Prius.
More »I’ve finally relented and signed up for Twitter. I’m seeing it as a temporary stay of my schizophrenia issues with Facebook. The feature I like best in Facebook is the status update. Twitter is a whole service just dedicated to this feature. In the Facebook status update I was loathed to make work related status updates that my personal friends wouldn’t understand. Twitter though is only being used by my work related friends, so there’s no audience confusion there yet.
More »Yesterday I gave a talk on web2.0 and social networking systems to a group of scientists at a Crown Research Institute. There were about forty people in the room, and another six or so videoconferencing in from other sites.
Today I got a request from a colleague to join a new SNS/feed aggregator called FriendFeed. I almost screamed…
More »It was a hot sticky ‘north of Auckland’ afternoon. We got out of the car, stretched, and looked around the Mahurangi School campus. Across the carpark on one of the non-descript buildings we saw a hastily drawn sign signaling the location of the registration desk. Kiwifoo 08 had begun.
More »Sarah Heal presented today for NZKM in Christchurch on Records Management as a part of KM Strategy. Over the last year she has detected some unexpected and at times inconvenient signals, a growing body of anecdotal evidence that something is not quite right in information management. There have been lots of failed IM/KM initiatives, and EDRMS is the “Emperor with no clothes”.
More »We had the Cognitive Edge Accreditation workshop in Wellington this week. It’s the first time we’ve had this in NZ since 2004, so it was great to have Dave Snowden back. Viv Read from Australia co-facilitated. It’s fantastic to see how much the methods have evolved in the last couple of years.
More »Some quotes from day one of the Digital Future Summit
More »I was recently involved in a Digital Strategy refresh consultation meeting with a small group of people from agencies in the conservation and environment sector. During the discussions on the vision the term ‘fabric’ came up. It got me thinking about what a ‘digital fabric’ for New Zealand might mean.
More »This started as a comment on Dave Snowen’s Sassy Red blog post but it got a bit long and I wanted to expand on it a bit more (and save it in case Dave legitimately rejects the comment because of its length).
To put this in context Earl Mardle while mostly agreeing Dave’s post on IT education in school took issue with the statement that: In any complex system you can never replicate outcome, but you can replicate starting conditions.