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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.
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
Google?s ?knols?: monetized memes?
2008-03-24 23:57:00 Google announced back in December that the company would be creating something called ?knols?, which Google describes as ?units of knowledge? ? which has been met with a mixed reaction. For example (and this is lifted, by me, from the Wikipedia page on knols), Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, suggested: ... More About: Google , Memes
Can a redirect drop your PageRank to zero?
2008-03-10 19:20:00 A little while ago, I decided to drop the ‘www’ from this site. I accomplished this by basically redirecting www.lucasmcdonnell.com to lucasmcdonnell.com. Seemed simple enough at the time — and I preferred leaving out the ‘www’ (it always seems redundant to me). What this also accomplished however, was to drop my Google PageRank from four to ... More About: Pagerank , Redirect , Drop
Is knowledge management dying a slow death?
2008-03-10 03:43:00 I thought my post about the potential decline of knowledge management on my other blog, memetiks.com, might interest my readers here. While I suggested in that post that the declining searches on Google Trends may be due to an increased understanding of what KM is about, I’m still reminded of the knowledge management as nonsense ... More About: Management , Death , Knowledge , Dying , Knowledge Management
Technology sometimes impedes collaboration.
2008-03-04 18:34:00 Well, I’m back to Toronto after my holiday. I had mentioned in my last post that I had visited Quebec’s museum of civilization — where they had an exhibit on the future of cities around the world. The exhibit is called Urbanopolis, and is a especially apropos since it’s the 400th anniversary of Quebec City. Within ... More About: Technology , Collaboration
On holiday in Quebec City.
2008-02-27 04:54:00 In case you’re wondering where I am at the moment: I’ve been in Quebec City for a few days now, and spent a very interesting night at (what I’m pretty sure is) Canada’s only ice hotel. It got a little chilly around 6 a.m., but I survived — and it was an amazing experience that ... More About: Holiday
Forums versus wikis: wikis often lose.
2008-02-12 22:46:00 It seems like everybody under the sun is putting together a wiki for something. There’s even a wiki for the board game Go. But with all these wikis around, is a wiki always the best tool for the job? Back in September of last year, I talked about some general questions people should ask before setting ... More About: Forums , Versus , Wikis , Collaboration
A new blog about memes: memetiks.com!
2008-02-06 02:40:00 I’ve been interested in memes (especially web memes) for quite a while, and I’ve wanted a place to post my thoughts on the subject — so I’ve created memetiks.com! Memes is “about memes, knowledge management and how we learn, interact and innovate through exchanging information, with a particular focus on how information and knowledge transform ... More About: Blog
7 ways to add value to content.
2008-01-30 18:24:00 Why do you read your favourite newspaper? What about your favourite magazine? You’d probably answer that it’s because they print content that you find interesting. Seems simple enough, doesn’t it? But, if you think about it, you also read your favourite newspaper and magazine because of the content they don’t publish. Lots of the time, whether ... More About: Content
4 influencing principle for knowledge ecologies.
2008-01-30 04:03:00 Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel, postulates that there are four important environmental factors that contribute to the ultimate success or failure of a society: 1. “Continental differences in the wild plant and animal species available as starting materials for domestication.” Having more domesticatable species of flora and fauna mean a head start for ... More About: Knowledge
Hosting issues resolved? for the moment.
2008-01-28 03:54:00 Well, after battling with incessant server errors, things seem to be back to normal here. I’m hoping they stay that way. Any problems you may have noticed on the site were caused by a few upgrades that were done by web webhost (BlueHost), but things seem to have gotten straightened out. However, I thought this would ... More About: Hosting , Issues , Moment
This site?s having BlueHost hosting problems.
2008-01-14 22:14:00 Well, it would seem 2008 has started out as a rough year for my webhost — all domains I own have been down more than they’ve been up for January. Apologies to everyone who has been trying to access the site in that period of time — I’ve spent many, many hours on the phone ... More About: Hosting , Site , Problems
This site?s having BlueHost hosting problems.
2008-01-14 22:14:00 Well, it would seem 2008 has started out as a rough year for my webhost — all domains I own have been down more than they’ve been up for January. Apologies to everyone who has been trying to access the site in that period of time — I’ve spent many, many hours on the phone ... More About: Hosting , Site , Problems
What do site statistics really mean?
2008-01-08 18:14:00 I’ve been debating (largely with myself) for quite a while whether to place full posts on the front page, or whether to abbreviate the posts with the ‘More’ tag. Most of the time, I’ve chosen to go with the abbreviated posts. Why? Well, my logic kind of goes like this. If you have a bunch of ... More About: Blogs , Site , Statistics
What do site statistics really mean?
More articles from this author:2008-01-08 18:14:00 I’ve been debating (largely with myself) for quite a while whether to place full posts on the front page, or whether to abbreviate the posts with the ‘More’ tag. Most of the time, I’ve chosen to go with the abbreviated posts. Why? Well, my logic kind of goes like this. If you have a bunch of ... More About: Site , Statistics 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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