Ed Taekema - Road Warrior CollaborationA blog looking at business communication, knowledge management, scripting tools, OS technology news and other things of interest to mobile tech workers. As I find interesting news this will also contain pointers to thoughts related to configuration managment, change management and general software development.Emergent Intelligence - Thinking is Overrated- January 19, 2005 Here is more on the "tagging good ... taxonomy bad" meme that is making its way around the internet. Here is what got my attention: There are strong similarities to how wikis and tagging works. Tagging lowers transaction costs for contributions and fixing mistakes. This increases participation and the probability of the right data actually existing in the first place. It also enables a dedicated community to self-govern (and note that as in the case of Wikipedia, the enthusiasm hasn't worn.http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/emergent_intell.html Comment Spammed Again- January 19, 2005 Just spent 30 minutes cleaning up a huge litter of spam that hit a ton of old posts ... weird thing is that it seemed to cluster around mentions of the Wall Street Journal ... strange. Anyway, is there anything we can do so that PyCS isn't so vulnerable to thishttp://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/2005/01/19.html#P314 Enable a Wiki Folksonomy Emergence- January 18, 2005 Rand Anderson is thinking about how to manage his tagsonomy more easily and that got me thinking about tagonomies and folksonomies for wikis. There is some great thinking around folksonomies and how they will beat out more top down professional taxonomies. Here are some links to get your started if you are interested: Lou Rosenfeld's Folksonomies How about Metadata EcologiesAdam Mathes's Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata Peter Merholz's Mob.http://www.executableabstractions.com/weblog/Python/2005/01/15.html#P79 How to run a brainstorming meeting- January 15, 2005 I have been looking for a great summary of brainstorming meeting techniques and facilitation tricks for a while. Here is a good one. I really like the tricks outlined to get the most creativity out of the session: What is the opposite of what we want Get the group to describe, in detail, the opposite of what you want to have happen. What is the worst web navigation design possible This never fails to get people to smile, and dig in. It is just so much fun to work the other way for..http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue34.htm Built In Archive Support for PyDS- January 13, 2005 I see that PyDS now has templates for Rendering Archives by Year, Quarter, Month ... but I have no idea how to turn this on. The underlying python code seems to imply that it should be a target available for the navigation tool so I can a link to the archive page... but no joy in my case. Maybe my templates are too customized for this to work ... Has anyone else cracked this mysteryhttp://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/2005/01/13.html#P305 GM, Windows, and blogging- January 13, 2005 In a move that seems to following tech corporate luminaries (Sun, etc) GM has launched its own corporate blogs - Fastlane. Welcome GM to the Blogosphere! via McGee's Musingshttp://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2005/01/08.html#a4470 |