ReadWriteWeb wrote about interesting use cases for Google Wave this week. One of the articles was about how students could use Google Wave for collaborative note taking. The text goes on to say: One concern that seemed to pop up several times in the wave was that Google Wave could make it too easy for lazy students to get by. As Justin Neitzey succinctly put it: “I don’t think kids should be allowed piggy back off the work of others.”[...]
Archive for October, 2009
I recently read a post on Janet Fouts blog about a service that offers to backup your “lifestream” (I hate that term). This is a service that offers to backup your Flickr-photos, your Google documents, your Gmail messages etc. and even your Tweets. I can see why having backups of some of these types of data can be useful – but Tweets? Who would want to pay money to have their Tweets preserved for eternity? What is “official” communication? Then[...]
Twitter recently made a change to their service that makes it impossible to repost the same Tweet within a certain amount of time; probably 24 hours. Some people say that Twitter wants to make life more difficult for spammers. However, I think their approach is so misguided and ineffective that I suspect entirely different reasons. Why post duplicate Tweets? The reason I have been posting Tweets more than once (both privately and professionally) was to accommodate followers in different time zones. Using[...]
I find it surprising that there are not more good distance learning and e-learning programmes for aid workers and that the ones that exist are so hard to find. Here is a number of courses and programmes that I know of. Please leave a comment if you know of any others. In this list I am focusing on courses that offer specific skills for humanitarian aid workers and not on more general courses that can also be useful for people[...]
Every time I’ve witnessed the restructuring of an organization or company, the same thing happened: within minutes of the announcement, the foot soldiers gathered in the cafeteria, voiced their surprise over some of the changes and discussed why certain things simply won’t work. I’m normally one of those people. Organizational structures are information architecture The other day I realized that the challenges that management face when deciding an organizational structure are not very different from the problems that web managers have when[...]
About a week ago, US comedian Sarah Silverman posted a video called “Sell the Vatican, Feed the world.” It has since been viewed almost 500,000 times and has been tweeted, commented and blogged about. I really like this video. I love satire and I think this video does a great job of raising awareness for world hunger. If you haven’t seen it, watch it before reading on. In case you don’t know Sarah Silverman, I should warn you: She is[...]
Update: Problem solved. See comments if you have similar issues and want to know how I fixed them. If you are one of the 47 per cent of my visitors that use Firefox then you will see that the text runs over the “Facebook Share”-button on the right. I’m aware of this problem but don’t know how to solve it. I want the Facebook button to appear underneath the Twittley button (or the other way round), but of course I[...]
October 15 is Blog Action Day – an annual event where a bunch of activists are trying to focus the attention of the entire world on one topic. Their method: Get as many bloggers as possible to write about this topic. No matter what the normal topic of the blog is, no matter whether it is a long or a very short post. Basically they are trying to flood the web with their chosen issue for a day, which would then[...]
