Communications
Social network popularity around the world
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008A friend of my girlfriend’s from Berlin was recently introduced to Facebook during a visit to us here in Belgrade. Last night I asked how she was getting on with her sojourn into Social Networking and was told that apparently “Facebook is not that popular in Germany”.
I had noticed the odd dominance of certain services [...]
How I made my presentations a little better
Monday, August 18th, 2008An excellent primer from 43 Folders: How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders
Aurora concept video
Monday, August 18th, 2008These guys are working with Mozilla to bring you the next generation of browsers. This is a sneak preview…
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
[From adaptive path » aurora concept video]
Interactional Expertise - The dangers of parasitical experts who "know" but cannot "do"
Thursday, June 12th, 2008A recent Scientific American reviews of “Rethinking Expertise” by Harry Collins and Robert Evans got me thinking about the problem of “experts” and expert advice.
From the review:
This slim book by Harry Collins and Robert Evans offers a conceptual typology of “expertises.” The authors invent a plural form of the word to suggest that more than [...]