Sol 3

Just about every new web app worth its salt allows users to add freeform tags to content.  I use tags when I add content to del.icio.us, Flickr, Google Reader, and other web apps. that I use regularly.  Heck, I'd probably complain if a new web application came out that didn't allow me to tag content. I've also added tagging to some new internal ...

Wow, I know that this is such a small thing (and incredibly self-indulgent), but I noticed that Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics linked to me :-) Wikinomics » Blog Archive » An interview with Mozilla’s Chief Evangelist I purchased the audio-book version of Wikinomics in the middle of last year and it's one of the best books that I've ...

A few weeks ago I blogged that I was increasing the number of blogs that I subscribe to quite significantly.  This has continued to the point where I'm currently subscribed to around 260 blogs.  The primary way that I'm finding new blogs is through the Google Reader Discover feature:   There's a description online about how the Discover ...

As many of my work colleagues are undoubtedly aware, Darren is being all too ‘non-subtle’ again this week with his approach to sending out information.  They will have noticed an increasing volume of information based on links to popular, online community sites – such as Twitter, Facebook, and, to a lesser extent, LinkedIn. The reason for all this ...

If it's true that most of the knowledge that we get comes from sources that are external to our organization, then it makes sense that the more information that we can access the better.  In line with this theory, I've recently made some fairly significant changes to how I process information that I get from reading blogs and it's having a good ...

Our lecturer just mentioned Christensen in the context of somebody to watch in the space of innovation theory.  According to his page on Wikipedia, he was the person who articulated the theory of disruptive technology. A quick search on Google Scholar uncovered this interestingly named article: ScienceDirect - Research Policy : Explaining the ...

I was grumbling over a beer to fellow Readifarian Francois the other day about how hard it was to get through all the reading that they hand out at Uni.  His response?  To give me more reading of course: http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/howtoread.pdf Highly recommended!

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It seems odd to me that we label such a small group of people as being Gen Y.  In my view, it should be the entire vertical slice that we are talking about when we refer to ‘The Millenials’.  Not just the number of people who each have birthdays within 6 years of one another.  People are quick to make the point that Gen Y grew up with ...

Having started my reading at Uni now, I would have to say that I've become much more accustomed to reading articles which properly acknowledge referenced sources than I've enjoyed previously. The ability to follow statements through to an originating source makes other content, which makes no acknowledgement of its references feel inaccurate, ...