Got back from Montreal and RoCoCo 2007 last Friday with a pile of notes and a case of the flu, which pretty much killed my productivity this weekend. Fortunately, spring conference season for me is over, and I’m boycotting all summer conferences with the possible exception of Wikimania in Taipei this August, which means I’ve [...]
My friend and colleague, Aldo de Moor, has left the hallowed halls of academia to join my world of research-consultancies. He’s started a company based in the Netherlands called Community Sense (an excellent name!), where he will apply his considerable knowledge on community informatics to real-world problems. Check out his company web site and his [...]
My big takeaway from this rendition of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) continues to be the growing maturity of this community as well as the influx of new faces. This manifested itself in interesting ways in Open Space today. As Phil Windley noted in his excellent synopsis of the day, almost half the room stood [...]
Quick thoughts from day one of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW): (M9G) This is the fourth IIW. The first one was in October 2005. Amazing. It feels like we’ve been doing these for at least five years. (M9H) Over half of the participants were there for the first time. (M9I) I opened [...]
One of my great deficiencies is my lack of literacy regarding Buckminster Fuller, someone who has greatly influenced many people in my sphere. Last Friday, I was having lunch with Kaliya Hamlin, Karri Winn, and Tiffany Von Emmel at the beautiful Thoreau Center in the Presidio. Kaliya was explaining my philosophy about identifying the pain [...]
Another comment my friend Ed made about medicine last month that stuck with me was that he could easily tell whether or not a doctor was a newbie or an expert by reading the diagnosis. Rookie doctors are afraid of making mistakes, so they list everything they see in great detail. They basically overload you [...]
Brad Neuberg, Jonathan Cheyer, and I will be meeting at Jonathan’s place in San Jose this coming Saturday, May 12, at 10am for an ad hoc HyperScope sprint. Please join us! This will be an outstanding opportunity to meet the team, learn about HyperScope, and help us move the project forward. If you’d like to [...]
Last month, after Creating Space in Baltimore, I decided to go up to Philadelphia to visit my friend, Ed. Ed’s a radiology resident at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He was on call for one of the days of my trip, and he let me join him and observe. (M8J) (M8K) Radiologists study [...]
I had a series of strange run-ins with animals over the past week. Last week, I was up late working, when I heard a rustling on my balcony. I peeked outside and was surprised to see a racoon bustling about. I live on the top floor of a five story building, and there is nothing [...]
I’ve been absent from this blog for almost a month, which is unusual for me. It started with my trip to Baltimore last month for Creating Space, the Leadership Learning Community‘s annual conference, and it ended with the Compendium Institute workshop last week here in the Bay Area. In the middle, I cranked away on [...]
