As Rick noted, I am at the workshop on Building Distributed Communities of Practice for Enhanced Policy-Research Interface hosted by the International Centre for Governance and Development. It is actually just after the adjournmjent of the second day of proceedings right now, and my brain is exhausted. I have taken too many notes to dump here, but I will dump them into a wiki or something within a few days. The format was great – each half day was organized around a theme and there were various speakers around each theme. Speakers represented the U of S academic community, as well as national and international agencies. I just want to comment on one theme that was found throughout the workshop so far, and that is the need to make the knowledge from people’s experience and their tacit knowledge available to … Continue reading »

Red Herring Blog: Bill Gates’ blog strategy::Will the infamous Micro$oft approach to competing technologies of embrace, extend and exterminate be repeated?

OK – its not quite as rousing a rallying cry as Hoover’s “a chicken in every pot” but let me add my adulation to Brian Lamb’s cheers for Alan Levine’s RSS2JS script. I like the idea of being able to put an RSS feed in the content of any web page. That’s stigmergic!

First of all, in response to Mena Trott’s query How are you using the tool?, here’s how movable type fits into my life: I have two weblogs with two authors running on my site (at www.omegageek.net/blog and www.omegageek.net/rickscafe). Since typepad came along, I’ve tended to use my domain blog as more of a testbed for projects involving different people. (And don’t worry, Rick, I’m not shutting your or the domain down — I might even upgrade to MT 3.0). I have also used MT to set up candidate web sites for two candidates in the area. This has been particularly successful because it allowed me to provide candidate’s with the ability to add content very easily to their web site, thus communicating directly with the voters. I’m also managing several projects at school using MovableType. I have been using MT … Continue reading »