Peanut Butter Wiki

Interesting... a free personal wiki that's as easy to use as peanut butter (I thought the expression was "easy as pie"?). I started one here. Not sure how I will use it. Start your own.... it's easy

All Hail to the Wiki

I personally have begun to appreciate the utility that a wiki at work has to offer. It truly has allowed me to be more efficient. One of the benefits is that I don't have to rely on my feable memory anymore. As long as I throw whatever tid-bit of information that I know I will need sometime later on up on to the wiki, and make sure that I keep the wiki organized so that I can easily look it up, then I know that I'm good to go. I can see how it can be a good way to share information as well. If everyone kept up there own wiki, I could default to looking up info from that individuals wiki if they were not available or not have to unnecessarily disturb them to get the information I needed. But not many people are using it or are aware of the tool, as of yet, which is why I'm trying to spread the word.

"wikis excel at collaboration. They are intended to maintain a series of unique documents as their content evolves and to provide an organic means of organizing that information."
- Ezra Goodnoe

I like the idea of a tool that empowers the user to, over time, willfully and organically evolve informational content in a space that is also then openly available to others in the group.

There are more features that can be added to the Twiki, the wiki version used at work. A feed reader/aggregator that can be inserted into a page that can consume feeds from disparate databases in the organization (like what is used on start.com and www.google.com/ig). However, this would involve constructing rss interfaces for these legacy databases. Another feature would be to be able to search within the documents that are uploaded to the site and linked to the site instead of just the textual content on the site. That was the nice thing about desktop search was that the search was able to access the content of the documents. But now that I'm starting to upload these documents to the wiki, I'm loosing that searching capability. But I guess... since the wiki forces me to be more organized, I will be able to find the document by drilling down the hierarchical structure.

The twiki is a tool with potential and plenty of room to grow.

Blogs vs Wikis

- Ken Yarmosh

Mario Mozart

original tune

piano version

blind-fold piano version

cheesy remix version

electric guitar version

9 string bass guitar version

rap version ("hoooked on the brotha's!")

symphonic version

congradulations!

Flicker... er.. Flickr

It took me a second to get this one, but this post definitely cracked me up.

"It started with Flickr... then came Mappr... then came Syncr... then came Flippr... tbn cm nthr wrd wtht vwl nr th nd f th wrd. Ngh lrdy!!! Jss Chrst, t's nt cl nymr. Th frst sg ws nq, th thrs wr jst stpd. Th nmng cnvntn s ffclly dd. Mv n, thr's nthng t s hr. Try smthng tht hsn't bn dn bfr, pls?"

-Chris Pirillo

A Database Rumination

To create a clustered or non-clustered index? That is the question.

Note to Self

Keep things stream-lined and simple.

Play Pumps

Killing two birds with one stone by tapping into potential energy .

WATCH HERE

Escherolantern

Rosa

7:00 am

arriving into work
quiet sounds of keyboard chatter
and random mouse clicks.

Locked in a Camera

VIEW COLLECTION HERE

Kings of Convenience

Crossing paths in the cafeteria,
she asked me how my weekend was.
Accidental or preplanned?

Nevertheless, I now prepare a best of The Kings of Convenience CD.

Poor Poor Polio

VIEW HERE

The Internal Duet

"This silent conversation--a passing grin, a sudden look of recognition, a lurking question about another's motivation--comes so naturally to us that most of the time we're not even aware that we are locked into such a complex exchange. The internal duet comes naturally because it relies on parts of the brain that specialize in precisely this kind of social interaction. Neuroscientists refer to this phenomenon as 'mindreading'--not in the ESP sense, but rather in the more prosaic, but no less impressive, sense of building an educated guess about what someone else is thinking. Mindreading is literally part of our nature. We do it more effortlessly, and with more nuance, than any other species on the planet. We construct working hypotheses about what's going on in other people's heads almost as readily as we convert oxygen into carbon dioxide."

-- Steven Johnson, Mind Wide Open

Crush

Intentions unclear
She bats her butterfly eyes
Making my heart stir

Mind Wide Open

"It turns out that one of the human brain's greatest evolutionary achievements is its ability to model the mental events occurring in other brains."


"Chances are you've had an experience roughly like this: you're at a social gathering with colleagues or peers--say it's an office holiday party--and you run into a coworker with whom you have an unspoken rivalry. It's one of those relationships that is chummy on the surface, but right beneath there's a competitive energy that neither side acknowledges. When you first encounter your colleague, there's the usual pleasant banter, but before long he's confessed to you that something has gone wrong with his career trajectory: either he's lost a big account at work or the fellowship didn't come through or the last batch of short stories got rejected. Whatever it is, it's bad news. It's the sort of news that a friend should perhaps greet with a concerned, doleful expression, which is exactly the expression that you deliberately contort your face into as he delivers the news.

The trouble is , you're only a friend on the surface. Below the surface, you're a rival, and a rival wants to grin at this news, wants to relish the schadenfreude. And so for a split second, as you're hearing the fateful syllables roll off his tongue, his tone foreshadowing his disappointment before the sentence is even complete, you let out the slightest hint of a grin.

And then an intricate dance begins. As your face wraps itself up in dutiful concern, you detect a flash of something in his face, a momentary startle that says, 'Were you just smiling right there?' Perhaps his eyes suddenly lock on to your pupils, or he pauses in midsentence as though something has distracted him. In your mind, an interior closed-captioning emerges: 'Did he see that grin?' As you offer your condolences, you can't help wondering if your words sound cruel rather than comforting. 'Is he thinking that I'm faking all this sympathy? Maybe I should tone it down a notch just in case.'"

--Steve Johnson, Mind Wide Open

Quality Crisis

Hey Wylie, sounds like Roche is doing pretty well. I can't say the same for MERS. I'll be glad to jump ship soon.

Pacific Northwest American Indian Voices

Long ago the MOUNTAINS thought they were people.
Long ago the TREES thought they were people.
Long ago the ANIMALS thought they were people.

Soooooome Day,
They will Say,
"Looooong ago the PEOPLE thought they were people".

- Johnny Moses

Dave Winer

"Users and Developers party together"

Unitus

Having grown up in mainly third world countries, exposed to the world's poverty, it was inspirational to watch this video of an individual who is investing his energy alleviating the worlds poverty (and generating profits) by investing in poverty.

The World is Spiky!

Is the world FLAT or SPIKY! Hmmm....?
Either way, with the internet, it's definitely getting smaller.

Growing, Falling, and Porosity

While the internet is growing:



George is falling

and Tim Orielly describes "porosity" as engaging with the market as you develop a product

The tremors are finally subsiding

The internet withdrawals are drawing to a close as I'm finally hooked up at the new place. Yesterday I bought a dining room table and some chairs. Just got done playing some hoop on the on-site court. The place is feeling more like a home now. Alls I need now is a big comfy couch and a big flat screen tv (i wish).

odie's debut

Watch

the beginning

A little over a year ago and 8550 pics later... this is how it all began.