Someone sent me a link to this blog by Steve Matthews, who does Web development and library and knowledge management for a Vancouver law firm. Some of his more recent posts deal with KM in law firms. I like his vacation policy. Addenda: Check out what Steve wrote on his blog about me linking to [...]
I was laughing so hard after reading this one, I’m sure my coworkers wondered what I was doing. I saw this in my aggregator. It’s the first time in weeks I saw a comic in my aggregator. Yea!
Beginning at 8 pm, sj will demo his birds project, which is what he showcased at the Boston Cyberarts Festival on Thursday. It’s great. Jimmy Wales will still speak at 8:30 pm in 101 Pound Hall.
Jimmy Wales Wikipedia/Wikimedia Lunch at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Jimmy began by asking how many of the people in the room have edited Wikipedia. Most of the hands in the room went up. “Very good!” he exclaimed. He made a few jokes about sitting in a Wikipedia meetup [...]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting a special lunch for Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia/Wikimedia this afternoon. I am lucky enough to have gotten an invite. I will probably do some live blogging. Since it’s over lunch, my notes may not be that great because I’ll want to eat, too. sj is here [...]
Just a word about the comment form because the info it asks for and what it does with it is a bit misleading. Name Email Web site Comment Manila requires an e-mail address from people to post a comment. It doesn’t have to be a valid e-mail address; the blank just has to be filled [...]
I told someone who thinks I’m being a bit elusive that I should be either the first or second hit for “j Baumgart” in Google. I don’t think he believed me. It’s true–at least for the time being. I’m competing with a nursing scholar and a lawyer. There’s a bad joke in there somewhere …
*j imagines lots of readers flocking to Orkut to view the picture. I’ve had a stack of photos for scanning for a while. When I went through them looking for another photo, I paused at one and asked, “Why wouldn’t this work?” I couldn’t come up with a good answer, so there it is. I [...]
A few scratchpad readers dropped me some lines about their impression of a talk American Library Association president Michael Gorman gave at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. I linked to Amanda Robertson’s comments because she summarizes what people told me about the event. The students, who have strong interests in [...]