About a month ago, my friend Justin mentioned a town near Santa Barbara, California that claimed to have the world’s best barbecue. As I explained a few weeks ago, I claim to be somewhat of an authority on barbecue, having eaten it outside of California. To be so near (well, about 250 miles away) yet [...]
Seb Paquet posits the following theory: “people who pioneer group-forming practices are those who have a marked interest in something that is not generally shared by the rest of the population.” He cites evidence from a First Monday paper entitled, “A social network caught in the Web.” (4L) Said a different way: Niche topics [...]
Danny Ayers reports a good introductory article on various metadata tools, including GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF. Jason Cook, a high school classmate, wrote the article. (4K)
For my blog entry on e-mail clients, I had to look up the link for the Extreme Markup conference. In so doing, I noticed that William Kent will be keynoting this year’s conference. (4I) Bill Kent‘s book, Data and Reality, is awesome. I consider it a must-read for anyone interested in data modeling. I [...]
Brian Lincoln was complaining about e-mail clients recently, and he said that he was willing to pay $1,000 for a good e-mail management tool. That’s a stunning statement, if you think about it. E-mail is probably more widely used than word processing, and probably ranks near even with Web browsing. Several companies have devoted large [...]
Suppose you are writing in a Wiki or WikiWord-enabled blog. Why would you use a WikiWord instead of an external link? (3T) For a more concrete scenario, consider a link to Blue Oxen Associates. You could either create an external link to http://www.blueoxen.org/, or you could use the WikiWord Blue Oxen Associates. I see [...]
I’m currently reading Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, by Gayle Pergamit and Chris Peterson (who’s on our Advisory Board). The book is about the MGTaylor DesignShop process. (2K) Quick aside on MGTaylor: Founded by Matt and Gail Taylor, these folks have been around for almost 25 years, and are pioneers in [...]
Sebastian Paquet reports a recent article on Edsger Dijkstra and thinking out loud. Paquet notes that Dijkstra “gave us an early example of the art of knowledge-oriented blogging.” (3S)
We had a Bay Area gathering of the Blue Oxen Associates Collaboration Collaboratory at Applewood’s Pizza in Menlo Park, California. Nine of us showed up, and we had a great time mixing and chatting. (3P) At one point in the evening, Brian Lincoln told Jon Cheyer his idea of Grass Roots Peer Review. They [...]
I spent the past few days closing out PurpleWiki bugs in preparation for our impending v0.9 release. And once again, unit tests saved my butt. (3I) Automated unit tests are like programming with a net. You invest a little bit of time up-front writing the test, and then you save a ton of time [...]
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