My friend and colleague, Tony Christopher, recently wrote a wonderful paper entitled, “Tools for Teams: Beyond the Email Bottleneck.” There are two things I really like about the paper, and there’s one thing I want to nitpick here. (MDS) First, the good stuff. Tony introduces a new term, “networked tools,” to connote tools that [...]
My friends Fen Labalme and Elaine Labalme send out an email twice a year celebrating the summer and winter solstices. This year, they related this great exchange between Elaine and their adorable son, Steven: (MDJ) Steven: “Why do we wear underwear?” (MDK) Elaine: “Because it makes Mr. and Mrs. Happy feel better.” [...]
http://www.michaelchabon.com/ wrote a wonderful homage to Arthur Conan Doyle a few years ago called, The Final Solution. It’s a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in 1944, and Holmes is an 89-year old beekeeper, long retired from detection work. The book never mentions Holmes by name, but it’s clear from the start who the “old man” is. [...]
Last month, we held a HyperScope sprint at Jonathan Cheyer‘s house in San Jose. (MCC) (MCD) It was so productive and fun, we’ve planned another one at the end of this month, Saturday, June 30, from 10am until we drop. This time, we’ll be meeting at Christina Engelbart‘s house in beautiful Sebastopol. [...]
(MCA) Courtesy of bLaugh. Spotted by Barnraiser. (MCB)
This coming election day (November 6, 2007) will mark the 35th anniversary of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District‘s formation (Measure R). I’m not talking about the group process, I’m talking about the preservation of natural Open Space, one of the reasons the Bay Area is so beautiful. The latest district newsletter cited a beautiful [...]
Two important events are happening in Wiki-land today and tomorrow. First, this afternoon at 2pm PDT (21:00 GMT), there will be a worldwide IRC meeting for Wiki developers on #wikiohana at irc.freenode.net. The main agenda item: WikiCreole. This was one of the outcomes from RecentChangesCamp last month. The cool thing is that folks have been [...]
