Thanks to a plug from Justin, I got a gig blogging about MyStrands. Turns out, it’s not quite as simple as listening to tunes and typing. Before I explain the problems I having with that, I need to self-disclose my relation to music.
Me and My Music
I grew up in a Top 40 world in transition. [...]
The (a)typical music user
Mistakes are Good
I started this blog about 9 months ago. This is as far as I got:
Carter’s taking piano lessons. Every Saturday morning, Carter and I get our own special time to frantically dig up $25.00, cram into the car and race across town to make it there only five minutes late.
The post remained in the drafts [...]
Open conferencing scheduling
This afternoon, some RootsCamp people will again meet online to chat. I think the emphasis will be on hearing reports from the weekend camps, one of which took place in New York. I wrote about lessons learned elsewhere, but looking at the NY pictures sparked a new insight.
More public photos available on FlickR
Even though whiteboards [...]
Community Informatics
One of the big bonuses of interacting with new people is that you add connections of personal relevance. At Indiana University, we have a fine social informatics department, but I had never heard of the formal subspecialty, community informatics, until receiving a reply to a RootsCamp-related email.
Community informatics (CI) is devoted to enabling communities with [...]
Income Leakage
Greg Travis, one of the participants in our first Bloomington RootsCamp, talked a bit on Saturday about income leakage in Monroe County. His main example is the limestone industry, upon which Bloomington sits at Ground Zero. For years — once the resource was discovered to have a market — local owners employed local workers, exchanging [...]
Developing the Local Virtual
One of the early ideas coming out of Bloomington RootsCamp was this thought by Sophia to use Second Life as a way of visualizing proposals. She could see developers inviting council members and the public to experience the buildings they want, perhaps even making adjustments in that space (or better, allowing a Web 2.0 philosophy [...]
Going out on a limb
I used to like to climb trees. We had a beauty in our yard, when I was my sons’ age. It had a nice low sturdy branch and plenty of higher ones spaced in ideal ways only nature can manage. I liked the feeling of accomplishment to poke my head out of branches some 30 [...]