I just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go This is a somewhat melancholy study of three student’s growing up. Their prosaic childhood angst and issues offset the true issue within the book. It was a steady, well-paced story that was slow and gently laid out. The narrative style was [...]

This is a pretty cool web app - World66 - Visited States
Here is the map of the states that I have visited. I didn’t count lay-overs in the airport as actually visiting

create your own personalized map of the USA

I have been talking about the impact of “Web 2.0″, social software and folksonomies in regards to their possible impact on enterprise knowledge management.
* The Web 2.0 movement is about empowering people to publish their own content quickly and easily with a minimum of knowledge. Flickr, Youtube, del.icio.us, Blogger et al allow people [...]

I just returned from EDUCAUSE where I met with several people from Xythos. Xythos has just announced Developer at Xythos - a collaboration web site aimed at helping users do creative things with the Xythos software. Kevin Wiggen, the CTO for Xythos, also announced a new initiative to spawn open source development [...]

2005 EDUCAUSE National Meeting
* * SF Middleware Initiative: Identity and Privilege Management Model
* * Identity Management Roundtable

I just arrived in Orlando Florida for EDUCAUSE. I’m presenting at three different sessions (two on Identity Management and one on Folksonomies, Virtual Organizations and Enterprise Information Management). I just got into my room - a very middling Best Western Motel which is just fine but not great - when I started thinking [...]

On my old blog iMind version 1.0 I had written a post about three short on-line movies including one which was a slide show tribute of pictures from Iraq.
I had a comment posted the other day. I’ll quote it below. Kimberly, if you read this; why don’t you write about your experience? [...]

I have a flickr account for photos located here: My flickr photos. I also have a .Mac account where I post photos which is at: My .Mac Account Homepage. I also have gallery installed on this site which I use to post photos that I want to include in posts. [...]

I have been espousing the idea that various conferences could choose a tag up front then implore their attendees to use that tag for their blog entries about the conference. This is a simple way to enable information aggregation from a virtual organization.
EDUCAUSE has just announced a tag for their upcoming conference. It [...]

Just drove across the state to Onalaska, Wisconsin. On the way, I was surfing the FM dial looking for tunes for the trip. I forgot to charge up my iPod before I before I left and the battery died about 90 minutes into the trip. Ena and I swapped cars for the [...]