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Sunday, April 8th, 2007Okay bad pun, I know but I really couldn't resist. I'm feeling a renewed passion for writing of late, which is good because to intelligently comment on Tara's post on our new info-saturated culture, I really needed my mojo back.
Like drinking water from a firehose is one (rather accurate) description I've heard, and used, for [...]
Breaking News: Google Announces Google Apps Premier Edition, has MS Office in its sights
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007InformationWeek has broken the news tonight that Google has taken the wraps off the much-rumored Google Apps Premier Edition. Michael at Techcrunch got wind that something was up for today (it's Thursday already) and updated his post with the news. From IW:
Google Apps Premier Edition, unveiled Thursday, features online e-mail, calendaring, messaging and talk applications [...]
The technology in classrooms debate never seems to end!
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007From Assorted Stuff comes another discussion about the debate over laptops in the classroom and now it's PowerPoint under the microscope too!
So, faculty members are mostly annoyed that students are surfing the web instead of paying attention to their lectures. Who’s fault is that?
Again, who’s fault is that? PowerPoint doesn’t “induce” anything. Boring lectures are [...]
Google Reader digging Digg's grave? Or is Digg doing that itself?
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Could Google Reader, or any web-based RSS reader for that matter, become a Digg replacement? Digg has been pretty controversial of late, with wholesale banning of some domains with little or no explanation, so looking for it's replacement, something more democratic maybe, is getting some brain cells working overtime.
Started, I presume, by usr/bin/geek, then echoed [...]
Using MindMaps to help lawyers become lawyers … check out LawMaps.org
Monday, November 6th, 2006I love it when an old post is found and you get a great comment (because mostly when I get a comment on an old post, it's spam). My post from May about the debate over laptops in the classroom netted a comment this weekend from David over at LawMaps.org.
David and his friends have made [...]
Even the CIA thinks wikis are cool, Intellipedia launches for spies
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006From Yahoo News, the CIA has announced that they have started a wikipedia-based international, inter-agency wiki for the intelligence community called Intellipedia.
While this might be spooky to some, I think this could be a big step for intelligence agencies. Often agencies around the world have a hard time sharing and updating information. The CIA sees [...]
The laptops in class debate continues … more profs say no way
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006The debate over whether students should be able to use laptops to take notes in class is heating up again (interestingly just before finals). Engadget cites a Yahoo News article in this continuing saga. Here's a key paragraph from Engadget:
AP article cites several law school professors who have enacted the ban, including one whose inspiration [...]
A Walkabout Podcast for St. Patrick's Day: Software that helps you think and work better
Friday, March 17th, 2006Happy St. Patrick's Day all of you (yes, I am 1/4 Irish)! I recorded this yesterday afternoon, but I'm glad I didn't get around to mix it until today because this morning I got an e-mail from the Allison Crowe fan club with a special St. Patty's single. The whole single is the intro to [...]
Canadian-made Yahoo answers let's you be the expert
Monday, March 13th, 2006When you search for something online, how do you know that the answer is good or right? Usually it's a gut feel thing (yeah this looks like a good website). Now Yahoo Canada has launched Yahoo! Answers to let you answer questions from other surfers and ask your own as well. The story from Thursday's [...]
AllPeers … the Web 2.0 P2P - Collaboration app?
Thursday, January 5th, 2006Hat tip to Boris for this one … From Techcrunch, Michael Arrington previewed the new P2P Mozilla/Firefox plugin AllPeers that isn't even in beta yet!
I think this could be a really groundbreaking P2P development. There is so much that people like to share from within their browser and the browser is really a focus of [...]
Fear not the Dark Blog …
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005No, Dark Blogs aren't evil, Dark Blogs are blogs within a companies firewall. They aren't for public consumption, they are for internal KM, internal news, maybe even internal fun (gawd, not that! not at work!) Debbie has a great post about McDonald's embracing blogs internally in a big way (yes, that is Debbie and Scoble on [...]
Walking in a Wiki-wonderland?
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005I was just skimming Michael's review/announcement of JotSpot Live—TechCrunch » JotSpot Live - The Perfect Wiki?—and since I am no longer a wiki curmudgeon I'll give it a shot. Yep, I've been won over by wikis. We've been working on a ton of new content (aka cleaning house and re-writing) for the Qumana web site and [...]
Michael's non-review of MindManager 6
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005You know even when Michael says he's not doing a “review” of a product, you can bet he's going to say something cool, important, and definitely worth paying attention to. This is certainly no exception. Michael gives his take onMindManager 6 and since he has such depth in enhancing team productivity you dern well should listen. His [...]
The wraps are off the new MindManager6!
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005I was sworn to secrecy by Hobie Swan not to reveal until today what MindManager6
was like. See, I've been using it (the release candidate beta)
since late last week. I know I haven't even tapped into a
fraction of the new features (I'm going to be doing some serious Excel
and file embedding, you can bet!) … here [...]
MindManager Viewer for IE … not bad, actually pretty cool
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005For IE users out there, yes I know that's most of you, you now have an easier way to check out MindManger mind maps— Mindjet releases the MindManager Viewer -The Mindjet Blog » Mindjet Introduces New Browser-Base MindManager Viewer …. I think this is tremendous.
What
a great way to deploy meeting information and project
information. [...]