I was at my optometrist’s office the other morning. Discovering my interest in social media, he mentioned to me that he was on the committee working to develop social networking tools within the American Optometric Association (AOA). I commented to him that I thought it would be an important milestone when optometrists began to connect… Continue reading Why share what you had for breakfast
I have fond memories of my father putting out the flag on Flag Day as I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. It was a 48-star flag, a bit worn, and for a time I was embarrassed by its out-of-datedness; but later I came to appreciate just a bit of the sentimental value… Continue reading Flag Day
(cross-posted from phillynetsquared.org) On our last Net Tuesday (December 1), we held the Philly Net Tuesday Book UNclub at Robin’s Bookstore. The idea was pretty straightforward… We would discuss books in Net Tuesday’s scope of interest: social networking/media, nonprofit technology and social change. (That’s the “biblio” part.) And we would use the style of an… Continue reading Reflections on a “Biblio-Social Experiment”
I like to read non-fiction books in my “field” of information and social empowerment. And, like a lot of people, I sometimes annotate books as I read them. In doing so, I am, in effect, “tagging” portions of the book with metadata. I’m applying my own, personally meaningful expressions to words fixed on the page. … Continue reading Tagging and the Back-of-the-Book Index
My wife is taking some classes at Beadfest, an annual gathering of people interested in making beaded jewelry. And it made me think of the Origami convention that a friend of mine goes to every year. (I’ve remarked on this convention before because of that event’s use of labels that attendees can wear, indicating either… Continue reading Folks just want to share what they know
Perhaps I laud him too much (I see his name is quite big in my tag cloud), but here is a 17-minute talk given by Clay Shirky at the U.S. State Department last month. It is the epitome of what gets me excited about this whole damn thing we’re living through. “Web 2.0” is just… Continue reading Clay Shirky on the transformation of media
I expect that N2Y4 (the 4th annual NetSquared conference) to be the only professional conference I’ll attend this year (except, perhaps, for stuff in the Philly area). As a Net Tuesday organizer, NetSquared generously picked up the hotel and conference registration, but I had to buy the plane ticket out to California and some meals,… Continue reading Impressions from N2Y4 (2 of 2: Other Net Tuesday Organizers)
