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Everything is Miscellaneous from David Weinberger

I just placed my order for Dave Weinberger’s newest book Everything is Miscellaneous. You know it will be worth it. Of course, there is also an excellent blog to accompany the book. Book launch at the Berkman on Monday The Berkman Center is holding a launch party for Everything Is Miscellaneous on April 30. I’ll [...]

Video: RSS in Plain English

This is making the rounds. It is excellent and fun little explanation of one of the important underlying components of our Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 world. Video: RSS in Plain English Click To Play We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We [...]

The ultimate tool-kit

Yes indeed. The ultimate tool-kit You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn’t, use the duct tape. Via Ming  Via Euan Semple

PowerPoint humor (intentional)

Who knew you could be intentionally funny with PowerPoint? PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying PowerPoint is a great tool for displaying visuals that enhance, illustrate, and generally magnify your narrative. It €™s been used effectively for years by millions of professionals from such disciplines as academia, engineering, medicine, business, education, [...]

23 Learning 2.0 Things

Here’s something that Jack Vinson might want to point his students at. 23 Learning 2.0 Things Numerous sites have linked to this, but it’s worth highlighting – 23 Learning 2.0 Things. Once you’ve completed the list, you will be cool.

Web 2.0 Mindmap from Ed Yourdon

Ed Yourdon has been periodically sharing a mindmap he has been maintaining on Web 2.0 technologies, players, and issues. Worth some time to see how he’s organizing and thinking about the data out there. Ed’s blog, The Yourdon Report, is also worth paying attention to if you are interested in technology inside organizations. Web 2.0 mind-map, [...]

Dick Costolo blogging on technology ventures

Dick Costolo, CEO of FeedBurner, has started blogging again at Ask The Wizard. Better yet, he is blogging about his insights and experience as a serial entrepreneur (in Chicago of all places, which is not noted for its friendliness toward technology startups). Here’s a bit of a teaser from one of his recent posts on [...]

Research on business collaboration from IBM

James Robertson pointed to this last month. It is one of several excellent articles in an issue of the IBM Systems Journal on the topic of business collaboration. While the writing is a tad dry, the thinking and the research is nicely grounded in some real data for a change. Beyond predictable workflows: enhancing productivity [...]

Flight tracking with Flightstats

I neglected to mention this when Buzz first pointed to it, although I did start using it. I’ve tried many of the flight tracking sites and Flightstats does appear to be more useful. Check it out. And thank you to both Buzz and Scoble. Flight tracking We’re about to hop on yet another plane, this [...]

Learning how to make wikis work effectively

Atlassian has indeed put together a very useful resource with their Wikipatterns site. The social patterns that contribute to successfully wikis are by no means self-evident. This provides some really useful tools and ideas to help someone who grasps the technology make headway on the necessary changes in work practice. Making the Wiki Work “If [...]