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PikiWiki

Just launched - PikiWiki - fun for those bored with textual wikis via Aide-mémoire

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Digital Media & Convergence

Weirdly several people have wanted to talk about digital media with me over the last few days.  It is very apt with the AIMIA Digital Media Summit so close (I cannot attend as so many of our digital projects are launching in September). It made me stop to consider digital

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Why women just don't want IT

I was away on a snowmobiling vacation in Canada for International Women's Day in March this year so I missed seeing Sheryle Moon's speech.  I just caught up with it tonight and she raises some really important points. Women do not want to work in the

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IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter

Currently working to revitalise the IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter, first steps have been to: * revamp the website * start an online community to get member feedback & involvement * schedule a chapter meeting for September 2007 * start a special interest group (a.k.a. SIG)  in Web 2.0  with inaugural

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Failure is an option

Many times I've heard colleagues say that 'failure is not an option', I've even said it humorously myself. But failure is an option and it might just be a good thing to experience sometimes. Success is highly regarded in our society. It is extremely

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Water usage reduction 25%

This past quarter our household water consumption has been reduced by 25%. This effort has not made a negative impact on our quality of life, and it has inspired us to do more. Now trying to work out next steps to reduce usage even more. via Aide-mémoire

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Meeting Madness

Many times recently I've found myself in 'meeting madness'.  Someone somewhere has called a meeting, usually sending invitations via Outlook.  The invitation usually has, at best, a one line summary of what the meeting is about.  No agenda is set and nor are requests made explicit

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Scrum Rules

List of scrum rules from Control Chaos Scrum : an iterative, incremental process for developing software in chaotic environments. Scrum consists of a series of 30 day sprints, each sprint producing an executable. Between sprints, all interested parties evaluate progress and reevaluate technical and business requirements. Work is reestablished and the

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Web 2.0 Coming in for a Hard Landing?

There is increasing comment out on the net that we are heading for another dot bomb disaster - but worse than last time. A good example is this on slashdot. The question is how resilient is the industry now, has it improved since last time? Perhaps the answer is the

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Unskilled & Unaware - the Kruger Dunning Model

Just read an article by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) from Cornell University about the way that people who know less about a particular area overestimate their own skills and knowldge. Interesting also that further training helped people to perceive their limitations. As Kruger and Dunning note in their

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Reading - Vindication of the Rights of Women

Needed a break from reading Dante's Inferno (I can only take so much of hell in one go) so I decided to re-read Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It is very easy for us women in the western world to forget that,

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Quotation: Infringement of Human Freedom (Pitt the Younger)

Just came across an apt quotation for our times by William Pitt (the younger) from a speech in the House of Commons (November 18, 1783): "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." Pitt