Where is this at?

IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid: "Ross’s answer is named Parakey. As he describes it, from a user’s point of view, Parakey is “a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.” Translation: it makes it really easy to store your stuff and share it with the world. Most or all of Parakey will be open source, under a license similar to Firefox’s. There are differences between the two projects, however. Although Ross plans to incorporate the talents and passions of the free-software community, he’s building Parakey around a for-profit business model. And he’s leading the charge with a simple battle cry: “One interface, not two!”"

I wonder where this is at.

Why cani't I get more done?

mitchell's blog: Open Source, Open Science: "6. Collaboration often needs to occur between institutions rather than individuals. This makes it harder to get started than simply having a few people decide to try something."

Tonight I talked Aikido, Information Strategy, Aikido and then Information Strategy, rinse, repeat with a friend. Most people want to do good work; sometimes bulky duffle bags (bad, difficult, bosses) have to be unloaded first before you can play with the toys inside or some other unique metaphor.

Why is consistency cool?

Question:
Why is consistency cool?

Answer:
Because everyone loves it. Don't agree or think you're consistent? Then your brain is not working right. Remember your favorite meal? Yeah, that one. The one you like because it tastes the same every time. Ohhhh... that's right you're spontaneous ...this doesn't apply to you.

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Wha'cha got?

Question:
Why are you writing in grad school?

Answer:
Have a bigger goal in mind.

Should you believe in god?

Question:
Should you believe in god?

Answer:
No. You should believe in kindess as your god, peace as your religion, and love as how you materialize those states of being in the physical world.

"...Their practice of forgiveness unfolded in four public acts over the course of a week. First, some elders visited Marie Roberts, the wife of the murderer, to offer forgiveness. Then, the families of the slain girls invited the widow to their own children’s funerals. Next, they requested that all relief monies intended for Amish families be shared with Roberts and her children. And, finally, in an astonishing act of reconciliation, more than 30 members of the Amish community attended the funeral of the killer..."

How may I help you?

Question:
How may I help you?

Answer:
Not very much because it's not that simple. You can't just say "Oh, just find me something that has --aspects-- of --Greek culture-- in it where --they-- --studied-- --kids-- with --pscyhological disorders-- and how the --Greek culture-- --does not fully respect women-- ?"

What the heck do you mean?

Who needs books?

Everyone still needs books; highly underrated as successful technology.

What is a Seahoomba?

Question:
What is a Seahoomba?

Answer:
This is, "...just bouncing around the house doing productive things wherever I happened to end up..."

This guy's great!

What is the best book you will read this year?

Question:
What is the best book you will read this year?

Answer:
The best book you will read this year is
"Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out"
ISBN:
0060758694

This isn't fiction/non-fiction question or issue. This person has asked an entirely different question.

This is a "Do you have the bookworm disease?" question. Yes, yes I do. No matter how much I feed it -it's never enough.

What if time didn't exist?

Question: what if time didn't exist?

Answer:
Time never has. It is an arbitrary system of measurement created by humanity to mark the passing of constant change.

"How do Data Spaces and Databases differ?"

Question:
"How do Data Spaces and Databases differ?"
Pretty neat thoughts on that idea.

Question:
How can you help? Try learning about free and open source software.




Answer:
10:46 PM
de:
do you have Microsoft Word on a disc that i can somehow copy onto my laptop?

iblee:
no you don’t want that
you need abiword
hold plz
sending file

de:
will my profs except that?
is it compatible with the ANGEL network and all?

iblee:
What do you mean will your professors accept it?
do you mean: can you save in a .doc Microsoft Word Format?
(so that your professor can open it)

de:
Prof asked for word.doc

iblee:
Yes AbiWord can save in the MS .doc file extension
de:
so i downloaded and will use it for my non-virtual classes
oh koo

iblee:
Abiword = free
fast, runs better than MS Word
you could also use writely.com

de:
funny how i feel so much more complete with abiword
ok thank you very much kind sir
well i just used that power and saved is as a word.doc
thanx for sharing the knowledge
helps the small people out very much so
to move on to greater things
like pondering whether the Industrial Revolution led to a Woibleen's Sexual Revolution
and writing a critique on "The Communist Manifesto"

iblee:
hld plz
you'll want to test that saved file out Word Viewer 2003

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

How, do, you, like, your, documents?

Question:
How, do, you, like, your, documents?

Answer:
Hot, Fresh, And, Crispy.
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Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

What is project planning?

Question:
What is project planning?

Answer:
This is project planning. What we fail to do as educators is link "book knowledge" to (psuedo) "real world knowledge." Explicitly telling people what they will learn and the benefit is the most important thing you can do.

How can you possibly keep up?

Question:
How can you possibly keep up?

Answer:
By at least dealing with it, rather than ignoring it.

"Their meanings are ambiguous and sometimes contradictory. In fact, one of the concepts of the 2.0 movement is being a movement away from new software releases."

How to pay attention to the details is the question?

Question:
How to pay attention to the details is the question?

Answer:
Knowing what details you want to focus on is important. Many people make the mistake of saying, "If you do these behaviors you will be: rich, successful, loved, whatever." What's not true here is if you don't figure out what works for you, then you obsess about the wrong details. I have a better attention to details than most people, so I should be successful in all my endeavors right? That's the logic. It's wrong.

What you need to ask yourself is:

1. what details do I notice time and time and time again?
2. what details do I MISS time and time and time again?
2a. and how can I set-up nearly automatic strategies to counteract those missed details?

Real life examples:
Do you struggle to write anything? Us something to get it started: a mindmap/dump, blog for 15 minutes, stream-of-consciousness style. Do you miss paying bills? Use automatic bill pay. Do you like to read news/ blogs from various sites? Use a rss reader that displays information scannably fast. Do you miss appointments? Use a day planner system (try a lot and create your own mashup davidseah.com are brilliant. Fuse it with some other system. Or have you really put the time in to master any time management system. Remember it's time management, not complete time control. You can't control nor plan for every event. But, you can manage the time you're given.)

Within each of those examples (or anything you struggle with and have yet to realize that) are the details you either need to become hyper-aware of to deal with them. Or you need to become "aware" just enough to put a strategic method in place that deals with it for you. Think of it as a little script you can run every time you need.

"Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers"

Why do you feel overwhelmed by information?

Question:
Why do you feel overwhelmed by information?

Answer:
Gosh, disparate sources is one of my favorite phrases. Additionally, the thought is shhhharp. I also like to say "converging memes," "freely associated, disjointed vignettes," and "conflict of information." I've got others.

"Today's knowledge workers are drowning in the sea of data streaming at them from disparate sources. It has taken the Internet to bring together content from television, radio, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, and miscellaneous other publications and papers."

Question:
Would standards help and how do you convince people to use them?

Answering thought:
"Businesses operating in the same business context should be able to use the same forms of data representation."

Question:
What is a ubiquitous piece of technology that is still important?

Answer:
"Institute for the Future of the Book, an unusual academic center run by the University of Southern California but based in Brooklyn."

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

Is there an oasis in the world of business jargon?

Question:
Is there an oasis in the world of business jargon?

Answer:
"...an international effort to define a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices..."

Question:
What is significant?

Answer:
I belive a person's online presence/persona will only rise in signifigance proportional to the realization of the internet as a massive, intertwined sociological/technological medium.

Quickly said, what you say and do will follow you from online to offline and back again.

Linkle:
Study shows fear of MySpace predators is overblown
Some of the findings are:
* Only 7% of those teens interviewed were ever approached by anyone with a sexual intent and nearly all of them simply ignored the person and blocked him from their page.
* Two-thirds of the parents were sure that there were many sexual predators on MySpace, while only one-third of the teenagers shared this concern.

Tags: iblee,knowledge_architect,

What's news to you if it's not timely?

Question:
What's news to you if it's not timely?
I'm of course playing with this disbelieving statement, "well, that's news to me," in two ways. First, information is relevant when someone learns about it in a timely manner. Second, information is relevant when you recieve it through a source you trust. Don't think so? How diverse are the information sources that you get your daily news sources through? I would bet you check one the most out of all the ones you could check; The one you trust the most.

Answer:
Go graze.

Are You Ready for ISBN-13?

Question:
Are You Ready for ISBN-13?

Answer:
I didn't know I had to be ready.

Can the world be saved?

Thank you for coming to check on me.

;)

http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/slogan/

__________________

Question:
How are things going to change?

Thoughts:
Read the definition for VIQR "vietnamese quoted-readable"

You do know to search by
"define:readable"

Tags:
iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

__________________

Question:
Is integration important?

Thoughts:
"...teaching students how to find information rather than memorize information' was ranked highest in importance in this year's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Issues Survey (2000, p.8). Eighty-four percent of the more than 4,400 ASCD members who participated in the survey rated the statement 5 or 6 on a six-point scale (with 6 meaning 'extremely important')."
[1]

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

__________________

Question:
What books for what direction?

Thoughts:
"There are two required texts for this course:

Castro, E. (2003). HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Student Edition, 5th Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Teague, J.C. (2004). DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide 3rd Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

This is a recommended book:

Teague, J.C. (2004). DHTML and CSS Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

These books are available at the IU bookstore and at bookstores around town. Of course, you can purchase them on the web..."

[1]

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

__________________2006.07.10

Question:
What does simplicity demand?

Thought:
"Focus on the most important tasks and make it as easy as possible for people to be successful at completing these tasks in the fastest possible time."

Question:
What will be defined?

Thoughts:
"Defining Information architecture is a re-occuring theme in all IA forums, and frequently leads to re-naming efforts as well, from information therapist to experience designer."

"Information therapist." I like that.

__________________

Question:
What is a blank sheet of paper worth?

Thoughts:
http://www.brand50.com/discover/food_for_thought.html

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

Question:
What is all that racket!?

Answers!?:
"2. Present passion not perfection."
[111]

Question:
What is of historical significance?

Answer:
"Trailers of Historically Significant Films"

Question:
What does it all come down to?

Thoughts:
"9. It all comes down to output...Show Me The Output."
[111]

Question:
When will we fry the facts with the information?

A possible answer:
Silobreaker

Question:
What's new news?

Answer:
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT
"..It's easy to dismiss World of Warcraft as just another videogame. Easy, but dead wrong....In China, meanwhile, hordes of "gold farmers" earn a living by selling the fruits of their WoW labors to time-strapped players in the United States.

SLING MEDIA
"...TiVo sparked a media revolution by popularizing "time shifting"; allowing TV viewers to watch on their own schedules. Krikorian is doing the same with "place shifting"; enabling people to remotely watch programming streamed from their home TVs. Reading between the lines, this means that, though you might never own a Slingbox, Sling's technology will be coming soon to a set-top box near you.

[1]

Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

Question:
What's cool?

Man, this is cool:
"Sometimes you can't smooth these 'seams' away, and so seamful design is about taking account of these reminders of the finite, limited and physical nature of digital media. It's about deliberately but selectively revealing these seams to users, to let people make of them what they will. Seamful games are a means to try this kind of system design out, as well as an end in itself."
[1111]

Question:
When will the pure physical, virtual, and ubi-quical converge, blend, and be seamless?

Cool:
"...Equator is a six-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) supported by EPSRC that focuses on the integration of physical and digital interaction..."
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Question:
How can you not be watched over if we default to harmlessness?

Check it:
"...Principle 1. Default to harmlessness. Ubiquitous systems must default to a mode that ensures their users’ (physical, psychic and financial) safety.

Principle 2. Be self-disclosing. Ubiquitous systems must contain provisions for immediate and transparent querying of their ownership, use, capabilities, etc., such that human beings encountering them are empowered to make informed decisions regarding exposure to same..."

[111]

Question:
Was I just thinking this? Well... something close... :)

Good thoughts:
"...part of what that means is that I get to spend a great deal of time with the people who use complex technological systems, devices and artifacts - systems, like the very one you’re reading this on, that have a great deal in common with those being dreamed at Ubicomp, the 'context-aware wearables,' 'face-responsive interfaces' and such."
[111]

Question:
Do you feel like a tool?

You shouldn't:
"A good tool is an invisible tool."

Question:
When aren't you surrounded by computers?

Answers:
"Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people. Virtual reality is primarily a horse power problem; ubiquitous computing is a very difficult integration of human factors, computer science, engineering, and social sciences."
[11]

Question:
Why can't we be more creative to our problems?


Thoughts:
"...When he got dropped off, he walked to the other side, held up his sign and got paid to go back the other way too..."
[1]

Question:
What's shakin'?

Insights:
"...The pages have been battered, gouged, scorched by fire and blotched by fungus. Without the use of computer technology, they would be mostly unreadable."
[1]

Question:
Why do you love some and kill others?

Answer:
"She was a grand old lady."
[1]

Question:
You want to teach what while doing what?

Think on this:
"...Hyperbolic space is an unimaginable concept, unless you're a Latvian mathematician who's handy with needle and yarn..."
[1]

Question:
What's not for breakfast?

Answer:
Spam, ham, lamb, sam, and jam?
"...This latest build offers most of what an average Rails developer needs right out of the box! That includes :

* Ruby 1.8.4
* Rails 1.1.2
* Capistrano 1.1.0
* Mongrel 0.3.13
* Rake 0.7.1
* Subversion
* MySQL 4.1.12
* MySQL Administrator
* RadRails
* KDevelop
* Kate
* and many many others!"

Question:
What are you thinking about right now?

Answer:
1. How to constantly update your search skills and best blogs to read.
2. How to develop a customer-loyalty focus (beyond customer service.)
3. How to embrace innovation, and put into practice OODA.
4. How to use, deploy, and benefit from open source technologies from software to hardware to OPACs to social movements.
5. How increase your operations funding to customer-focused technology innitiatives.
6. Why any socio-information professional must understand myspace.com, youtube.com, facebook.com, blogger.com, flicker.com and the rise of social software.
7. Why we must use our professional conferences to germinate bleeding edge practices.
8. How to take better digital pictures by tweaking, hacking, mixing the settings on my a95 and then bringing in the GIMP.
9. How to cook Indian food.

Question:
What do you do right? Gives new meaning to the phrase "money to burn."





Source:
"A former Goose Creek teacher pleaded guilty and received deferred adjudication for getting her uncle to have her car burned last year.
...The term of Levingston’s deferred adjudication is five years, according to a court employee. If she meets the terms of the adjudication, she will not have a criminal record." [1]

Question:
What are you doing with your time?

Answer:
? I'm thinking about doing more and more stuff like this twisted up with teaching people how to learn, better, in more ways, deeper, faster, farther longer. I think the time you use technology the better and more control you should take of that technology. Programming should just be one of the many technological skills you build. I'm not talking about becoming a full-time programmer but you should have the ability to solve technological problems you run into. There is no excuse for not being able to program whatever the is next VCR/VHS player.

I was speaking with a good friend. He said we need to face what we all are. This man is a surfer -who is a professor at university. I quote, "I just accepted that this is my life and this is how I'm going to live it rather being what someone thinks (badly) about what is a surfer . I know it is good."

True.

Question:
Are you feeling creative?

Answer:
You should be.
"Microsoft and non-profit licensing organization Creative Commons said Wednesday that they had struck a deal to allow Office users to add the group's licensing to their documents. ..." [1]

Question:
Is this all the programming algorithms you might ever need?

Answer:
I have no idea.

Question:
Do you feel Artificial Intelligence is possible?

Answer:
"..I make the case in chapter 4 of Singularity is near that we will have the models and simulations of all several hundred regions within about 20 years. [1]

Question:
Would you seriously cite wikipedia?

Answer:
"He says when he ponders the complaints from college students he thinks,
'For God sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia.'"

Tags:

• wikipedia

Question:
Doesn't this make you even a little sad?

Answer:
It should. "...35,000 turkeys are butchered daily,"

Question:
What's going on in there?

Answer:
It'll be more than cellphone chatter.
"...Proprietors 'don't want anything going on inside there' other than cellphone chatter, Salemi explains."

Is this the first position?

Question:
"Is this the first position?"

Answer:
It could be. [1]