Month: July 2006

Wanted: System / Network Administrator. Yesterday, the net sum of what I managed to accomplish consisted, approximately, of creating one new email address. Sure, there were extenuating factors: it was the first email address on the fogcreek.de domain, the German registry doesn't understand that the order of your domain's name servers should not make any… Continue reading Wanted: System / Network Administrator

Dell Lowers Profit Forecast and Shares Fall Nearly 10%. Dell, once a symbol of hyper-efficiency and marketing, warned quarterly profit would be 30 percent lower than expected. By STEVE LOHR. [NYT > Technology]

Four Big Ideas About Open Source. By tim In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: The architecture of participation beyond software. Software development was the canary in the coalmine, one of the first areas to show the power of self-organizing systems leveraging the… Continue reading Four Big Ideas About Open Source

Times are Changing So, things have been happening in the iFolder project. First, Calvin has left Novell (good luck in the future!) which has meant less people to work on the team. Therefore, a big change… The team are not rewriting iFolder client. Previously, a decision had been made to rewrite iFolder for version 3.5… Continue reading Times are Changing

thoughtless acts?. How does our environment influence our behavior? This lovely book, by Jane Fulton Suri + IDEO, highlights things we do as we interact with the objects in our world and with other people. It challenges us to consider: which of these acts are conscious and which are done without thought? How do we… Continue reading thoughtless acts?

A Personal Approach to KM. The web has always been about content, but in the early days, it was also about understanding the technology that allowed you to publish to the web/intranet. These days the technology is no longer a barrier. We have more tools at our disposal than ever before to help us easily… Continue reading A Personal Approach to KM

Do You Know What You Don't Know – The Information Audit. During the normal course of business, librarians typically get a good feel for the needs of their patrons. After all, they work directly with attorneys, paralegals and staff day in and day out. That could result in some complacency; we don't know it all,… Continue reading Do You Know What You Don't Know – The Information Audit

Forbes' 150 cheap places to live rich. Forbes advises freelancers who internet telecommute to buy a home in a cheap area of the U.S. to reduce their costs while still pulling in a big city salary. Surviving as a freelance knowledge worker–where you sell your time–is extremely tough in high-priced joints like New York, California… Continue reading Forbes' 150 cheap places to live rich

Happy 230th Birthday, America! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from… Continue reading Untitled

Leslie Burger Initiates Year of Transformation.  I still need to do a write-up of my thoughts from last week's ALA Conference, but Leslie Burger was kind enough to share with me her inauguration speech. While I enjoyed her wit and passion throughout the entire talk, I've excerpted below the piece that really resonated with me.… Continue reading Leslie Burger Initiates Year of Transformation