Like wikis, the Gartner Hype Cycle is something that has been around for a decade that I hadn’t heard of until recently. Of course, maybe I’m not alone. The Wikipedia article history on the topic is only a year old with just 16 edits.
The company is almost thirty years old and serves some 10,000 organizations [...]
Gartner’s Hype Cycle
43 best blogs (at least one interesting blog)
The whole setup of the 43 Best Blogs is probably worth a post all its own, but for now I’ll just thank that communal site for bringing me to The Community Guy. It is written by Jake McKee, a former community builder for LEGO now working for a Texas social media consultant. He’s got some [...]
Go to the library in your pajamas
Carter, Archie and I just spent the morning browsing an international children’s library. We searched through the books for ages 6-9 and chose a comic book about Kenyan brothers, one of whom becomes an amazing scientist, and one who becomes a successful police officer.
We used the comic as a springboard for finding Nairobi on [...]
Sick Mac
It apparently is to be a very brief relationship with my new Mac. Problems that started pretty much when I first booted it up but flared in early August have led to a series of tech moves that has made things worse. Now, instead of only randomly powering down, I have startup problems where I [...]
Help with a Science Project
One of our online friends is testing a hypothesis and could use some help. He wants to know the moon phase on your date of birth. You can look it up yourself, here:
Stardate
Or you can send him your birthdate at lizndave -at- kjsl.com.
The phases in order are
New Moon
Waxing Crescent
First Quarter
Waxing Gibbous
Full Moon
Waning Gibbous
Last Quarter
Waning [...]
(Other people’s) Report from Wiki Wednesday
Palo Alto was a bit out of the driving range for me (heck, it was out of the driving range for Matt, and he lives in the big state), so I had to live vicariously through other people’s blogs for details on what Ryan Singel said about the Wired Wiki editing experiment. According to those [...]