Jun 19 2010
Starting June 23rd for a couple of weeks, the three of us will be part of a discussion about Digital Habitats on The Well’s Inkwell.Vue conference. Inkwell is a cool, public facing bit of the well (the rest is paid membership) that gives folks a chance to have an asynchronous conversation with book authors from [...]
Feb 16 2010
Today Etienne, John and I will be guests on Stan Garfield’s terrific monthly telecon for knowledge management professionals, SIKM. Our focus is on knowledge management folks as technology stewards. We are going to “interview” each other to save from falling into talking AT instead of talking WITH, but we have a few slides with definitions [...]
Jan 13 2010
Roy Christopher on Culture, Computers, and Communities: Two Recent Books Thanks, Roy. I think your point about nature and technology is exactly the point we were trying to make about community and technology: the two are becoming so intertwined that they constitute each other in deep ways. . Alice MacGillivray (2009). Book review of Digital [...]
Feb 17 2009
Our friend Shawn Callahan has been following the work on the book – for years! He has been privy to various drafts and has recently been using the Community Orientations in his work with communities. Recently he realized he wasn’t so clear on orientations 7, 8 and 9 so this past weekend we hooked up [...]
Feb 03 2009
Ward Cunningham just recently set up his own channel on YouTube and has edited a conversation we had last Fall. His philosophy for conducting interviews is simple and effective: make guests feel comfortable and ask them questions that make them look good. He did a great job making me feel comfortable. We start by talking [...]
Feb 02 2009
As we wend our way down the path to final publication of the book, friends have asked us to share some of the bits and pieces that we have been using in our work and workshops. One of those is the Reader’s Guide and Action Notebook. This is now chapter 10 in the book and [...]
Dec 05 2008
January 1st, 2009 has been the target publication date for the book for a while, but that now seems to be slipping. We’re working as hard as we can on type faces and layout details and all of that. At the same time we’re using chapters of the book in a CPsquare workshop called “Connected [...]
Aug 05 2008
Funny how you don’t update mental statistics like, “how long have you been working on the book?” I’ve been answering the question with “three years” for a long time. But actually we started working on the project in January 2003, so that makes it four and a half years. During our meeting yesterday afternoon I [...]
Jan 14 2008
Don’t you love technical problems? Our WordPress installation had some sort of major foo and we lost everything. Even the back up was full of garbage. Thankfully not all is lost. There is the Internet Wayback Machine where we have been able to find most of the posts. We’ll have to reconstruct some of the [...]
Oct 09 2007
Ruby on Rails is a new and increasingly popular web application framework. Like many technologies today, it has an active community of developers and they have the customary suite of wikis, file repositories, email lists, blogs and RSS feeds. One thing that catches my eye about the Ruby on Rails community is its very active, [...]
