blog the organization sounds interesting:
"My BlogBook project has taken a major turn. It's no longer about weblogs in the sense of diaries and journals. Instead, I've decided to focus on the use of weblogs and similar tools within organizations. More later on why I've made this change. For now, please bear with me while I update the Web site to align with my new plans."
How a Librarian Can Live Nine Lives in a Knowledge-Based Economy:
"Over the centuries, the librarian and teaching professions have become elite groups that are currently losing their exclusive privileges in the access to knowledge. We see the emergence of figures that reinvent the old role of "guide to the sources" and come from the most varied fields. Consider the human guides of "About.com": What are they? Reference librarians? Journalists? Teachers? Engineers? Psychologists?[ via webword ]
Creating, acquiring, and managing information have emerged as the central focus of the digital economy. Now we are all knowledge workers: We create and use information using Web sites, e-mail, databases, forums, etc. Creating and sharing information are the basis of social relationships within specific virtual communities. This sets up an enormous long-term challenge for every library or information center as well as for every professional involved in publishing and education. We need a new mind-set and we're all learning as we go. Like cats moving through their fabled nine lives, I think that teachers and librarians should redefine their own roles beyond the confines of their respective traditions. In my opinion the most promising road today is that of helping people develop their own cognitive abilities, understand their own needs, and learn how to express them correctly."
i hope it's just a case of drawing too many conclusions from too few data, but doc's latest bit of evangelism for jabber.com entitled "jabber asks the tough question" starts ringing warning bells for me. why? because when i read things like following, i hear trouble:
"How do you make money with something that becomes ubiquitous internet infrastructure? It's a question Jabber is asking about instant messaging and presence.so, maybe it's nothing. but it doesn't help that jabber.com ceo, andre durand , is writing about how the best implementation doesn't always win [ and we can be pretty sure which he feels is "best" ]:
Jabber is hot, but it's still not quite setting the world on fire. When will it happen? And how will open source developers make it happen?"
"This morning I pondered why so many inferior products, services and technologies end up suceeding [sic] and why so many other clearly superior products, services and technologies ultimately fail."and it doubly doesn't help that jabber parent company webb interactive may be delisted from nasdaq :
"The company received a Nasdaq staff determination last week, saying that Webb Interactive "fails to comply with the net tangible assets requirement for continued listing.""like i said - i hope i'm wrong. i hope i'm guilty of quoting out of context. but put it all together and it's hard to not get a picture of a company that's limping. badly.
having spent my high school years just a stones throw from flint, michigan during the time when michael moore's roger & me was released in theatres, i used to hear this sort of reasoning all the time:
"Le says he doesn't see many Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese clients engaging in cosmic questions about their lives in the technology industry. Perhaps that's because these workers often come from hard-core tech backgrounds such as engineering. Many of them also have a lot riding, culturally, on an industry that was milk and honey for generations of immigrants here, Le says.of course, there are important differences, but the logic leads to the same result - chained to the "line" and blind to new opportunities.
``Our parents 20 years ago worked on the assembly line at Apple when the first computer came out,'' says Le, who moved from Vietnam when he was 10. Younger generations may find it hard to question or reject what their parents still see as opportunity."
wierd. so, i'm reading an
article
from the relatively new
o'reilly bioinformatics center
and i see that
nat
was nice enough to give the
vast wasteland a plug.
strange, but true. maybe i'll have two regular readers now.
i forgot to mention that for thanksgiving dinner this year, kris and i "brined" the turkey and it's well worth the extra effort [ at least for me, since she doesn't eat meat :-) ]. it's funny because i hadn't heard of the technique, but apparently it was part of one of the subplots of "west wing" this week and it looks like meg brined her turkey this year. mmmmm. mmmmm. the turkey is still good for snacking and sandwiches.
"Robust political debate is essential to democracy. Our national political discourse is an important part of the democratic process and serves as a critical check on those in power. We are therefore deeply concerned that our public political dialogue, largely expressed through the channels of the mass media, is becoming systematically dominated by sophisticated tactics of manipulation rather than norms of public reason. Despite widespread complaints about spin, no one is adequately documenting the full ramifications of this development to our satisfaction.[ via rc3 ]
Thus, our goal at Spinsanity is to use rigorous, non-partisan analysis to expose the use and intent of the simulated reason and public relations techniques that dominate political discourse, and to document how they are disseminated through the media."
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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