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Information, Experience and JudgementInformation and Experience. One thing John Perry Barlow pointed out is that people today often are unable to differentiate between information and experience...[Ming's Metalogue]
A thought provoking post Fleming. I guess I am of the video game generation (I remember Atari consoles when I was kid) so make of my comments what you will.
I agree that there can be a sharp discontinuity between peoples experience of the world and what they get from the mass media. This is, I guess, because the media's job is not accurate reporting and thoughtful commentary but selling media. If you asked us we probably all realise this, we are just apt to forget it in our daily lives. Fear lives in the primitive, old, parts of our brain and it's easy to get us going.
If I have an argument with the "nothings happening to me or my friends so it's maybe not really a problem" line of reasoning it is that it can go the other way and let us ignore 'big picture' problems that do exist. So I think it's not simply about information, or experience, but also about judement. Do we have the perspective required to interpret information correctly and make sound decisions about what is going on in the world around us?
For that I think you need good role models.
RssDistiller: vital tool for Radio UsersLast time I checked out RssDistiller from evectors I wasn't really into RSS very much. It was just after I started using Radio and, frankly, I was more interested in messing around with it and what it could do. What did I care about feeds? Also creating patterns to distill sites is a bit of an art, who has the time?
Well of course I'm a little older and wiser now. RSS has grown to be very important to my thinking and to how I think business should be done. So important that tools to get non-RSS delivered content into feeds are vitally important. Of course, this is exactly what RssDistiller does.
To create a feed from a website you point RssDistiller at the site and specify patterns marking the start and end of the areas RssDistiller should look at, and then the start and end of each "item" it should create. RssDistiller will then turn that into a valid feed.
For example the following patterns are how i configure a feed for a website that I use:
- ignore text before: <body
- ignore text after: </body
- start pattern: <p>
- end pattern: </p><br />
- item template: ##text##
fiddly, but worth it.
RssDistiller is definitely worth checking out.
Making CoP's flyMaking communities of practice fly. Diane Le Moult has written an excellent summary on how to make CoPs work. This is written from her direct experience, and highlights a number of very useful guidelines: 10 fundamental questions you need to ask before starting a CoP:... [Column Two]
Great post.
Another IDEA convertWhen IDEA v3.0 was released recently I thought I would evaluate it again and I'm glad I did. This is a good software.
I've used every version of JBuilder and seen it mature from a piece of crap, to a great IDE, and on to a rather swollen mess. I don't think the IDE part of JBuilder has improved much in the last few releases, Borland have choosen to concentrate on other areas. IDEA on the other hand is impressive. It works very smoothly, it's features are intelligent (like folding that works, and fantastic code completion). It also has the best refactoring support I've seen so far. As a coders tool IDEA looks very good.
About the only significant downside for me is the lack of a GUI builder. I guess if you're only doing J2EE based (I'm not qualified to evaluate the J2EE support) that's not a problem. For me, it is. I don't particularly like the JBuilder GUI designer or the code it creates, but it is better than nothing.
So, in short, IDEA goes on the wish list.
AsTMa!
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