Trust is such a critical component of collaboration, it’s easy to dismiss. Other than acknowledging its importance, I haven’t thought too deeply about the role of trust in collaboration. That started to change a few weeks ago, as the concept kept rearing its lovely head in all sorts of places. (LKM) One of them [...]
A few weeks ago, I drove down to The Tech Museum in San Jose for the Tech Museum Awards exhibit. All 25 recipients were there showing off their projects, including Theresa Williamson, who was an Equality Award Laureate for her organization, Catalytic Communities. (LKF) I’m a big fan of Theresa’s. She is a wonderful [...]
Andy Dale reported earlier this month that La Leche League will be using Kintera‘s software for member and donor management. More importantly, the two organizations will use open “standards” to share data between their respective systems. Andy’s company, ooTao, is implementing the data sharing using technology known as XDI. (LK3) The data sharing problem [...]
Three excellent talks are scheduled for the Peninsula this week. The first is tonight at Bay CH I: Fred Turner will talk about his new book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How the Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community. His talk is at PARC tonight at 7:30pm. (LJQ) Tomorrow, Allison Fine will talk about [...]
On a warm summer evening in Virginia last July, I sat on Marcia Conner‘s porch and wondered aloud whether we were in the same business. Marcia cares about collaboration, but she’s nuts about learning. If she doesn’t hear the word “learning” in the context of projects she’s involved with, alarm bells go off in her [...]
I’ve done a lot of volunteer teaching, and back in 1998, I had become fed up with the classes that I was helping with. In particular, I had spent six horrible weeks volunteering at a class to teach kids computers, which turned out to be a glorified typing class. (LJ2) Afterwards, I asked the [...]
Last month, I went to see “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” exhibition at the de Young Museum with my friend Betty Toole. To be honest, I found most of the quilts disappointing. The story is very compelling, even if most of the quilts are mediocre. I wish the quality of the collection wasn’t as hyped [...]
The HyperScope crew attended SRI’s 60th Anniversary celebration at the Computer History Museum last night. The main event was a panel discussion moderated by Paul Saffo. Participating were SRI luminaries Doug Engelbart, Phil Green, Don Nielson, and Paul Cook. (LHD) Saffo closed the discussion with the question, “If you had a large sum of [...]
At WikiSym last August, Ward Cunningham showed some regional trends comparing Google searches for “wiki” and “blog.” Overall, searches for “blog” (in red) steadily outpace searches for “wiki” (in blue), although the rate of growth is about the same for both. (LH4) (LH5) Ward pointed out that the phenomenon is reversed in Germany: [...]
Socialtext‘s Kirsten Jones talks about Socialtext Open and its REST API on this week’s Perlcast. It’s a good interview, and the last question reminded me of a funny exchange at WikiWednesday this past week: (LH0) Kirsten: PHP is for girls. (LH1) Evan Prodromou: Hey, Michele would object to that! (LH2) Kirsten: That’s [...]
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