Thursday, October 10, 2002workshop. Bryan and I are leading a weblog workshop for IT folks in November. We spent part of the morning pulling together an outline of topics that we'd like to cover. Take a look, we'd love feedback, especially relating to issues that you think might be of concern to IT staff who are introducing their faculty to weblogs. [[alterego]] 10:12:31 AM | # | |
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Generation Wrecked. (SOURCE:The FuzzyBlog)-I continue to count my blessings. I don't have a stable income (yet, I am working on it!), but Barb has one and good benefits. We also have maxed out our RRSPs and have no debt except our mortgage. Hang on to your job unless you passionately believe in something and have the resources (i.e. investors or savings, don't go into debt!) to go for it! <quote> Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Films like Singles and Reality Bites chronicled their transition from college graduate to Gap salesclerk.
A few years later the core of Generation X--the 40 million Americans born between 1966 and 1975--found themselves riding the wildest economic bull ever. Salesclerks became programmers; coffee slingers morphed into experts in Java (computerese, that is)--all flush with stock options and eye-popping salaries. Now that the thrill ride is over, Gen X's plight seems particularly bruising. No generation since the Depression has been set up for failure like this. Everything the dot-com boom delivered has been taken away--and then some. Real wages are falling, wealth continues to shift from younger to older, and education costs are surging. Worse yet, for some Gen Xers, their peak earning years are behind them. Buried in college and credit card debt, a lot of them won't be able to catch up as they approach their prime spending years.
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Piloting a K-Log. (SOURCE:tins::Rick Klau's weblog)-Very cool, Rick! Will these klogs use Radio and will they be public? <quote> We're kicking off a k-log initiative at my company tomorrow. I've identified a dozen people to serve as guinea pigs. IT installs the software tomorrow, and they'll take a few days to get familiar with the software. Rather than bombard them with any formal training right away, I want them to be comfortable with what's on the screen - at least that way they'll figure out what questions they want to ask.
Week of the 14th, I'm going to meet one-on-one with each of the people to help them get over the basics, explain the aggregator and the concept of RSS subscriptions, and identify any challenges they've faced.
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Ridiculously easy group-forming, continued. Philip (of ecosystem and Radio comment monitor fame) has got some thinking going on over in New Zealand. He's started a page on the Community Server Wiki to work out yesterday's idea for instant weblog-driven group-forming. Much to my merriment, he makes it sound like it could actually be feasible (indeed, his use of the word "will" would seem to imply that it's going to happen).
Philip goes on to describe a possible implementation in more concrete terms than the vague stuff I'd come up with yesterday. I'm excited. Of course, one way to see it is that we're just reinventing unmoderated USENET newsgroups - with the critical difference that we're doing away with the politics that cause the group creation bottleneck over there. [Seb's Open Research]7:39:06 AM | # | |
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