Doug Engelbart and I gave a surprise remote talk at SHIFT this morning from his offices in Fremont to the conference in Portugal via video Skype. Thomas Madsen Mygdal took this picture while Doug was talking. Here’s how it looked from my point of view: (L9F) (L9G) At the end of our talk, [...]
At the workshop earlier this week, one woman raised concerns over whether blogging about one’s personal life at work could be considered wasting tax payer’s money. This question isn’t just limited to the government. Many companies ask similar questions about similar tools. For example, a lot of companies were reluctant to adopt IM, because they [...]
After the workshop yesterday, the CIA presented me with a shovel. That’s right, a shovel. (L8Y) (L8Z) The shovel was inspired by MeatballWiki‘s Barnstar (which is also used by Wikipedia). It is an honor that people bestow on others for gardening Intellipedia, and it exists in both virtual and physical form. It’s a [...]
In my last post, I wrote: (L8D) Transforming national intelligence is not enough. We need to transform the relationship between intelligence and policy. (L8E) First things first, though. For the past two days, I and several esteemed colleagues participated in a CIA workshop on blogs and Wikis, organized by Mark Oehlert at Booz [...]
About six months after 9/11, I came across a book by Gregory Treverton, who served as the Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council under Bill Clinton. The book, Reshaping National Intelligence for the Age of Information, was published shortly before 9/11, and its insights into the state of national intelligence were both revealing and [...]
Tristan Naramore referred me to a video clip of Jeff Han‘s talk at TED earlier this year. Jeff demonstrated his multi-touch screen, which is incredibly cool. Unlike touch screens today, you can interact with the screen with multiple fingers simultaneously. It’s also pressure sensitive. More importantly, according to Jeff, the technology is affordable. (L7M) [...]
Congratulations to Theresa Williamson and Catalytic Communities for winning a 2006 Tech Laureate award from The Tech Museum in the Equality category! Besides starting an organization with a great name, Theresa is one of those folks who does really good work while thinking deeply about the big picture. She’s one of those action-oriented, yet thoughtful [...]
Congratulations to Ross Mayfield, Peter Kaminski, Adina Levin, and all the excellent folks at Socialtext for the release of Socialtext 2.0. Even bigger props for slipping in “Purple Consulting” in the screencast. I’ve been cranking so hard over the past six months, I didn’t have a chance to congratulate them on their Open Source release [...]
At Blue Oxen Associates, we like puns and other Paul Bunyan humor. Our main discussion lists are called “yak.” This morning, Peter Jones sent me this video clip of some yak humor. (L6Q) Yes, it’s a trailer for Jackass 2. Yes, I thought it was funny. No, I am not 12 years old. [...]
Morten Blaabjerg, a Danish filmmaker, interviewed me at WikiSym last month and released the raw video under a Creative Commons license. I uploaded a compressed version of the interview (54MB) to Internet Archive. The interview runs about 12 minutes and covers a range of topics: Blue Oxen Associates, Wicked Problems, Wikis, and HyperScope. It’s a [...]
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