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Quit Following Me
Yesterday afternoon on the bus ride home, I watched from the window as a flock of birds circled and dived around the roof of a high-rise apartment complex. One bird had a slight lead, several others were a length behind, while another three dozen or so were clustered in pursuit. I turned in my seat [...]
Embracing Serendipity
I came to work for the Government by accident, or so it would seem. Failure to earn a livable wage as a social worker with a growing family was what drove me from full-time employment and part-time Master’s courses (whenever I could balance them), and into full-time education and voluntary unemployment. Leaving employment had obvious repercussions, [...]
Why Wiki Isn’t New to Government
In government, where change is recurring and often stressful to the employees affected, Web 2.0 can be a tough sell. One of the biggest hurdles in implementing technology in the workplace is not resistance to technology per se, but the cultural shift that the new software represents. But when a technology is introduced which replicates [...]
blog.grader.com: Useful, or…?
After reading a recent blog post by Spydergrrl, I was moved to visit a number of twitter monitoring and grading resources she suggested. While she didn’t specifically recommend “Blog Grader”, it’s in the same suite of Grader.com tools that encompasses Twitter Grader, Facebook Grader, Website Grader, and (the completely nonsensical for-fun-only pseudo-tool) Personality Grader, among [...]
Web X.x?
At the risk of sounding old, I remember when the web was in black and white. Or rather, when text was a default black, backgrounds were grey, fresh links were blue, old links were purple, and the combination of limited technology and limited knowledge prevented most web content from diverging from that scheme. This was [...]
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