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Is your internet service too expensive?
2011-02-06 19:57:00 There has been a lot of talk about usage-based billing (UBB) in Canada the past couple of weeks, starting when the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (the CRTC) announced that they were going to introduce caps on bandwidth and essentially force internet service providers (ISPs) to charge those who go over the caps. Along with all ... More About: Internet , Service
Is Android like Windows?
2011-01-26 20:57:00 I came across an interesting post a few days ago on how the Android operating system parallels (or even imitates) Windows . No, we’re not talking about from an interface perspective — but rather how the Android ecosystem is in a bit of mess, much like the Windows ecosystem and the complex relationships that Microsoft and ... More About: Technology
Smart marketing campaigns through twitter.
2011-01-19 22:03:00 Today we’ve got a great guest post from David Sumner from twago. This article lists some tips and tricks on how to conduct a successful online marketing campaign through twitter, and tells you how to work around the 140 character limit of tweets. Thanks David for the great guest post! A successful twitter marketing campaign ... More About: Marketing , Smart , Twitter , Campaigns
User-targeted TV ads?
2010-12-09 18:16:00 Cogeco, a Canadian cable company, is attempting to sharpen the blunt instrument of TV advertising by providing demographic-based advertising to cable subscribers that can be split into different segments that can be shown to different audience. So while you might see one ad during a particular advertising time slot of a TV show, other people ... More About: User
Competition in Canada?s internet industry.
2010-09-08 18:02:00 There’s an interesting piece by Michael Geist in the Ottawa Citizen about the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)’s policies on Canadian internet service providers, and the effect they have on competition in Canada . One particularly interesting point to note is that Tim Denton, chair of the CRTC, pointed out that newcomer ISP’s, even if ... More About: Internet , Industry , Competition
Google Nexus One? a month in.
2010-04-27 14:36:00 So I’ve been using the Nexus One for just over a month now, and I’d thought I’d write down some quick thoughts about what I think of the device so far. As far as the device itself goes, I’m extremely satisfied with it. The Android user interface is snappy on the Nexus One and the ... More About: Google
Moving to Android with the Nexus One.
2010-03-21 20:31:00 After using Windows Mobile for a good 4 and a half years, I’ve finally decided to call it quits. While part of me wanted to wait for the new Windows Phone 7 launch, it seemed that Windows Phone 7 was just too little, too late. So instead, I ordered a Google Nexus One last Thursday ... More About: Technology , Moving
After a long hiatus, knowledgecog is back!
2010-03-13 19:05:00 I’ve owned knowledgecog for a few years now, and the site has went through a few radical transformations. For about the last year, I was working on a few ideas for knowledgecog, but nothing really definitive came out of it. So instead of coming up with something completely new, I decided to get back to ... More About: Back , Long
10 great tips for public speaking.
2010-03-09 14:00:00 I was speaking to my father last week (who is recently retired), and he told me a story about a friend of his who was going to be doing some public speaking. His friend was feeling rather nervous about the prospect of speaking in front of a group. My father, who’s done his fair share ... More About: Tips , Public , Great
Windows Phone 7: totally new MS mobile.
2010-02-16 23:01:00 Engadget posted a bunch of info and analysis on Windows Mobile 7 yesterday (now called Windows Phone 7 Series — no more Windows Mobile ), and the new OS looks pretty serious. It’s a complete minimalist, monochromatic departure from Windows Mobile 6.5 (which in my opinion is a very, very good thing). Microsoft has desperately needed ...
Data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
2010-02-10 22:09:00 Patrick Lambe at Green Chameleon’s got an interesting post about the history, strengths and weaknesses of the Data -Information -Knowledge -Wisdom (DIKM) hierarchy. Overall, the post provides an insightful critique of DIKM as a mental model for how knowledge management programs or services are constructed and offered. I’ve always found the transformational nature (data turns into information, which ... More About: Knowledge Management
Should social networks replace email?
2010-02-10 00:44:00 I just read through Jack Vinson’s post on email, writing and expertise location (written largely in response to Luis Suarez’s ongoing quest to dump email) — and I think Jack’s right on the money with his observations. With any system, there is the inevitable volume question — how do we derive the quality information from ... More About: Social , Email , Social Networks , Networks
The technology arms race.
2010-02-02 18:49:00 I was sitting on the subway last week (which is unusual for me, as I tend to avoid the subway at all costs), and during one of the brief moments where the train goes above ground, was sending a few emails. After giving myself a mental pat on the back for being so productive, I ... More About: Technology , Race , Arms
Knowledge management video competition.
2010-01-11 15:53:00 Patrick Lambe over at Green Chameleon is having a rather novel competition (novel for the world of knowledge management at least, I think): he’s having a competition to see who can create informative, inspiring, creative and even funny videos about knowledge management. The video has to be your own work and publicly available for people ... More About: Video , Management , Competition , Knowledge , Knowledge Management
View random images on my photo blog.
2008-06-09 22:46:00 Just a quick post to let you know of a fun new feature I’ve added on my photo blog. It’s basically a little box in the sidebar that lets you view random images from my posts, and a click will take you to that particular post. While the photos are currently showing up a little weird, ... More About: Photo , Random , Images , Blog , View
Get Connected Fairly: a glimmer of hope for telecom.
2008-06-03 20:19:00 As regular readers of this blog probably already know, I’ve never exactly been happy with the Canadian telecommunications industry. They’ve been bilking Canadians out of money unfairly for years now, with little or no government intervention to keep them on the straight and narrow. It appeared that no one in government was willing to take on ... More About: Hope , Telecom , Connected
You can now view my photos here.
2008-05-23 17:27:00 I’ve added some photos I’ve taken over the years to this blog — you can find them at http://photos.lucasmcdonnell.com (or just use the ‘photos’ button on the top menu). I recently purchased a Nikon D60, so any photos that I’ve taken this year have been with the new Nikon, whereas any older pictures were taken with ... More About: Photos , View
15 tips for successful knowledge sharing.
2008-05-21 04:41:00 I’ve been thinking lately about what it takes to successfully share knowledge, and how this type of sharing can used to maximum benefit by anyone who needs to know something someone else knows better than they do. Here’s some ways to do share knowledge better that I came up with: 1. Share failures as well as successes. ... More About: Tips , Knowledge , Sharing
Well, it happened: I joined Twitter.
2008-05-14 20:26:00 I’m not exactly sure why, but I’ve been avoiding Twitter for a long time now. It’s not that I’ve had some deep dilemma over the validity or usefulness of Twitter — it’s more that I was worried I’d get engrossed in Twitter-ing my day away. But I’ve decided that fear of a new technology is never ...
The mysterious return of my PageRank.
2008-05-13 21:50:00 Since I’m at home sick today with a particularly nasty throat infection, I was browsing through some of my old posts, and noticed that my Google PageRank had mysteriously returned to it’s old value of 4 (I use SearchStatus in Firefox to see PageRank values). While I don’t really care too much about PageRank, I still ... More About: Pagerank , Blogs , Mysterious , Return
8 things you don?t know about me.
2008-05-13 06:16:00 Angela tagged me to let my readers know 8 random facts about myself. Believe it or not, this is harder than it seems. Here goes: 1. I’m gadget-obsessed — anything electronic usually sucks up a huge amount of my time (and money). Nintendo Wii’s the obsession du jour. 2. I love plants. I have a ton of ... More About: Memes , Things
Knowledge management?s value is contextual.
2008-05-05 23:17:00 Matt Moore’s got a short but insightful presentation on demonstrating the value of knowledge management (found via Bill Ives’ post), — and surprise, it’s not about the amount of documents your user base downloads or how many community members you have. I think Matt’s point is a good one. While it’s important to demonstrate the value ... More About: Management , Knowledge , Contextual , Knowledge Management
Spam anniversary: 13 000 spam and counting.
2008-04-29 22:43:00 I’ve been waiting a while now to get my 13000th comment spam (don’t ask me why, I’ve just noticed the number creeping up to 13000 lately, and I’ve been counting down the days). A while ago, I had decided to go with a challenge question as well as Bad Behaviour (which are both ways to block ... More About: Spam , Anniversary , Blogs , Counting
Blog consolidation: memetiks.com moved here!
2008-04-28 01:34:00 Due to the inherent difficulty of trying to maintain two different blogs, I’ve now moved the posts from memetiks.com over lucasmcdonnell.com. I had initially created memetiks.com in order to focus posts there on memes and meme-related topics, but it occurred to me recently that I didn’t need a separate site in order to write posts about ... More About: Memes , Blog
Make work a meaningful story.
2008-04-23 16:20:00 Inside Knowledge has a short, but interesting article by Dave Ulrich, who is a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The article is mostly about what motivates people to work (Ulrich uses the equation ‘talent = competence + commitment + contribution’ to suggest that talent is no good without the ... More About: Story , Work , Make , Meaningful
Does Plaxo offer anything new?
2008-04-22 19:50:00 I signed up for Plaxo a short while ago, and I have to say, I’ve been less than impressed so far. While the Plaxo platform is not necessarily bad in itself, I kind of feel like it’s just a somewhere between Facebook and LinkedIn — both of which I already use. I’ve tried to give Plaxo ... More About: Offer
Rick Astley cashing in on rickrolling.
2008-04-18 00:54:00 In case you haven?t heard, ?rickrolling? is everywhere. What?s rickrolling? Well, in a nutshell, it?s when you provide a link that is supposed to be to one thing, and actually links to a video of the 1987 Rick Astley song ?Never Gonna Give You Up?. Wikipedia has more on this (yes, it?s really a link ... More About: Rick Astley
FeedBurner subscriber drop weirdness.
2008-04-17 19:30:00 I’ve been using FeedBurner for about almost a year and a half now (if anyone’s counting, that’s since the first month that I’ve been writing here. and FeedBurner’s been managing my subscribers since then). I’ve been lucky to watch my subscriber count grow consistently — with one notable exception. This site has hovered around 400 RSS ... More About: Feedburner , Subscriber , Drop
Canadian telecom takes another step backwards.
2008-03-28 17:54:00 I’ve been lamenting the state of Canadian telecommunications for quite a while now, but today marks a real significant step backwards for this country’s telecom industry. Rogers, a major Canadian internet service provider, has decided to limit their once-unlimited service to 60 gigabytes per month, and charge users a fee of up to $5 for each ... More About: Telecom , Step , Backwards
This site?s now running WordPress 2.5 RC2.
More articles from this author:2008-03-26 22:04:00 I’ve upgraded the site today to WordPress’ latest version: WordPress 2.5, Release Candidate 2 (RC2). In case you’re curious to see what’s new with the latest version, you can check it out over at the WordPress development blog. The admin interface has changed substantially (and it seems much more pastel, but maybe it’s just me), with ... More About: Wordpress , Running , Site 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
