I recently enjoyed hearing this great quote from Joseph Campbell, prolific author in comparative mythology and religion: A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. This could be the basis for a whole new psychology about the human/computer interface. Everybody knows some poor soul who gapes...
If you want to see where desktop Linux and open-source software is making a difference, you should hear what some young people in inner-city Camden, New Jersey have to say now that they've experienced it for themselves.
What I'm enjoying is how much commonality exists in the effort to plan, design, and deploy these two new portals.
I think microblogging like Twitter helps procrastinators and perfectionists actually publish something blog-like without thinking about it as much.
It took less time than the interval between this post and my previous one about Twitter, but I conclude that Twitter is a social networking phenom that is more compelling to the personal/social world than the business world.
I think one potential benefit of Twitter to project teams is that a geographically dispersed team might be able to more synchronously keep each other informed about current activities and whereabouts.
Through high-tech telephony, IM, and chat, we're experiencing new and diverse ways of increasing the information stream through the combination of visual and aural channels.
Let us pause to consider the power of erasing. We do it so often now that we've forgotten how hard it used to be. But for better or worse, it's firmly entrenched in our modern work.
One of my favorite discoveries in podcasting is the weekly Poetry Off the Shelf podcast from PoetryFoundation.org, presented through alt.NPR. It combines interviews, special features, and enjoyable commentary with the best part: readings of poems by major contemporary poets. Although reading poetry is certainly the most common way to access the art, I believe...