Categories: ported from old Blogger blog
- About Tag Tags
(Note: this is a little long, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while…) At many meetings or conferences, participants wear name tags. At a minimum the tag contains a self-written first name (perhaps preceded by “Hello. My name is…”). Or meetings with registered users may have name tags with pre-printed names, organizational affiliations, [...]
- Ward Cunningham’s About Us venture
I just listened to an interesting podcasted interview with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki. He’s currently working with a new start-up called AboutUs with a very intriguing premise. AboutUs takes the text from various domains’ “About Us” pages, along with WhoIs information and probably other stuff, and puts it all into a publicly [...]
- NEIT “Solutions”: Bad!
Being new to this blogging game, I’m still trying to get a feel for what to write. At the moment, I feel like screaming to the world my frustration with my hosting provider, NEIT Solutions, that hosts my communishare.org site. They’ve been pretty good for years, but a couple weeks ago, they changed servers, and [...]
- Valdis Krebs and social network silos
I just listened to a great podcasted interview with Valdis Krebs. I was introduced to the work of Valdis Krebs by Stan Pokras way back when we were publishing the Other Networks newsletter in the early ’80′s. Valdis is a pioneer in the realm of social network analysis (SNA), a disciplined, statistical practice which long [...]