Society
For reasons related to work, I spent yesterday NOT attending Gnomedex but I did manage to make the dinner and get together afterwards. There was a large Vancouver contingent there. All of the usual suspects – Boris Mann, Darren Barefoot and his lovely wife Julia, Andre Charland from e-business Applications, and the entire Qumana [...]
My friend Ross Waring coined a new word today. I was reading him some of the excellent poetry that I received in my spam and he said, “Spam Poetry? You mean SPOETRY?”
I had to immediately post that to the world just in case he was the first to coin it.
For your reading pleasure below, [...]
I think I have found the magic number. Every fifth article from Mark Morford is so brilliant, insightful, and articulate that I need to post most, if not all, of it here for my readers. Today is the day for another.
In one fell swoop, Mark has managed to hit on a whole bunch of [...]
I work on a lot of different distributed teams, on corporate and non-profit projects. I have been finding it very interesting (and frustrating) to see what channels I have to use to communicate to my various peers.
Channels by environment:
For working in enterprise teams, we rely on audio-conference bridges with 1-800 numbers, file-servers, Sharepoint, Placeware/Live Meeting [...]
My friend Boris Mann had some great things to say about Vancouver being an excellent place to join or start a company here in this posting. However, I would add “capital efficiency”, great education system, and an awesome talent pool to to the list of reasons that Vancouver is a great place to build a [...]
(If you are looking for the 2007 event information, please click HERE.)
I am very excited about our launch of the 30 Days of Sustainability. For the month of March, Vancouver will host a cornucopia of events and activities, all focused around bringing sustainability to our lives and our city.
One key component of the 30 Days [...]
Have you ever received a gift you hated? And then you either threw it away, hid it, or regifted it?
A good friend of mine is launching a new boardgame called GiftTRAP with which he hopes to raise $1M for Right To Play – an athlete driven international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play [...]
I attended the Ready to Rocket 2006 session this morning, which was sponsored by Rocketbuilders , a Vancouver based market strategy and consulting firm that helps technology companies capitalize on market opportunities.
The presentation started with an overview of the successes from 2005. Next, Geoff Hansen presented an IT Outlook for 2006. This was followed by [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.)
Here are some great links about corporate wikis and blogs
What’s it all about?
The Wisdom of crowds: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/
Wikipedia: Wisdom of crowds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
Blink and the Wisdom of crowds. http://slate.msn.com/id/2111894/entry/2112064/
Smart Mobs: http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html
Web [...]
Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted!
So now we need you to go over and vote for us on this page!
Here is the summary of the proposal:
There is a change occurring on [...]
Okay, here goes my attempt at creating a totally incomplete, biased, and opinionated summary of why you should care about Web 2.0 as a non-techie geek who can barely use their computer to begin with:
Why do it at all?
· Web 2.0 is about connecting people: it won’t change the world, it won’t [...]
Back in 2003, I attended a pivotal event at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. Normally, these events generally follow a predictable pattern. People fill in the room, buy a drink and wander aimlessly. The venture capitalists avoid the nervous entrepreneurs with the bad pitches and the keen students stand nervously in the corner, not sure who [...]
Report to the home planet:
Solar date: 4034583.9.20
The humans on this planet are very fond of their sports. One sport in particular which involves running around a field moving a round object from player to player seems to be popular across the many nations. It is so popular that the other day, despite the [...]
Here are some of the gems from this week’s excellent article:
My mother, she had this car. It was …
This article from the Wall Street Journal discusses the rapid increase in traffic that Wikipedia
is experiencing. I’m not at …
If you haven’t checked it out yet, check out “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever” by Ray Kurzweil. It’s his newest book. The premise is that there are three bridges to get us to a nearly unlimited life span. The first is using what we already know. The second bridge is using biotechnology [...]
Boris Mann posted a great summary of a fine evening that he and I spent chatting with an MBA class team who call themselves “Team Flow.”
Lots of interesting discussion, and great questions from a very keen group of people. Thanks Lorraine and team for the wine and food!
I would have posted this sooner, [...]
Here is an excellent article from CIO Insight on the rise of corporate blogs, wikis, and RSS.
Only Mark Morford can put all of this into one article and tie it all together so well. Excerpts below. The link to the left takes you to the full article at SF Gate.
…James Dobson, the cute little founder of the cute little ultraconservative rabidly Christian happily neo-homophobic Focus on the [...]
A Cornell university study has found that 44% of Amerikans favoured “some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.” But remember George Bush, “this is not a war of Christian against Muslim or Westerners against Easterners, it is a war on terror.” Umm, yeah, right. Shockingly, those who were most inclined to vote [...]
