Archive for July, 2010
We’re social!
Twitter has easily replaced RSS as the communication channel of choice. Only 5 years ago, RSS was seen as the most effective way to allow web viewers to receive federated content. Two things changed this. First: Firefox 2 and IE 7, launched within days of each other in October 2006, both chose to only render […]
Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Social Networks, Work.
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The lies we tell ourselves
Having, quite proudly, reached the grand old age of 37 there are some thoughts I’d like to share on my observations of the world. You cannot understand someone until you’ve walked around in their shoes Harper Lee’s famous line from To Kill a Mocking Bird. I’ve had some wonderful things said to me in my […]
Posted: July 20th, 2010 under 42.
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All very well for the newbies, what about the rest of us?
I also talk about my first computer a lot: my Amiga bought in 1993. One of the things the Amiga OS and apps were aware of was the migration of users. Eh? What’ya on about? When people adopt new skills they go through four stages: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and finally unconscious competence. […]
Posted: July 12th, 2010 under 42.
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