Elisa Camahort, Lisa Stone, and Jory Des Jardins, the founders of BlogHer, spoke at last Monday’s Collaboration SIG meeting, and they absolutely blew me away. I’ve got many great female colleagues, and I’d heard great things about BlogHer last year, so I figured it was a good thing. What I didn’t know was how thoughtful [...]
David Alban posted a link to Andy Lester‘s slides, “Get out of technical debt now!” to the San Francisco Perl Mongers’ mailing list. Andy gave the talk at a recent London Perl Mongers meeting. (KRO) It’s a very clever framing of a common problem. My favorite line: (KRP) When you can’t do the [...]
The name, “Blue Oxen Associates,” is a reference to Babe the Blue Ox of the Paul Bunyan legend, which in turn is a subtle homage to Doug Engelbart. Most Americans know the story, although I find myself having to explain it to folks from other countries. On occasion, some folks have told me that blue [...]
There were two sessions on Identity Commons on the Open Space day (June 21, 2006) at the Identity Mashup at the MIT Media Lab last week. The first session was an open status meeting for the community at large. We described Identity Commons‘s purpose, told the history of the organization, then explained how the organization [...]
Overheard in the halls of the Collaborative Technologies Conference just now: (KQI) “Mashups are great, but they would be even better if humans could put them together, just like kids do.” (KQJ) Kids aren’t human? (KQK)
Tomorrow, I fly to Boston for the week for the Collaborative Technologies Conference 2006. Once again, I’m an advisor for this event. Should be a dandy. (KQF) If I get a chance, I’ll also drop by Identity Mashup and the Boston 501 Tech Club meeting. (KQG) If you’re in town and would like [...]
We’ve got a great event scheduled for the June SDForum Collaboration SIG meeting: “BlogHer: From Hierarchy to Community.” BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone will be sharing their experiences starting and facilitating the BlogHer community. It should be a great source of stories about collaboration and a great preview of the [...]
Last Friday, en route to some pickup hoops in Mountain View, my car hit the 200,000 mile mark. (KQ0) (KQ1) I hit the mark around 7pm on a gorgeous, warm day while at the intersection of Alpine Road and Junipero Serra in Palo Alto. It was exactly eight days before the 10th anniversary [...]
Lots of cool followups to report on the excellent global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. (KPM) First, Eric Pan wrote the other day about his web site, Share The Truth, a marketplace for giving away free tickets to see the movie. I love Eric’s enthusiasm, and I love the fact that he did something [...]
My post on the dangers of professionalizing collaboration spurred some good thoughts from Chris Dent, which resulted in some good discussion over IM. Chris wrote: (KP6) What one does when collaborating is always more important than collaboration itself. (KP7) In the ideal situation, collaboration disappears into the background. If you find yourself enmeshed [...]
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