DeeKnow’s Grotto

Auckland web developers meetup – 23/June/2011 Meetup.com is one of those many web services people flocked to enthusiastically a few years back when it first appeared on the virtual social landscape. I signed up for a bunch of meetup groups imagining my cloud community horizons expanding explosively and began mentally preparing to get along to [...]

The Cisco Collaboration Community hosted another live chat via Twitter today as part of the series of open discussions about collaboration and unified communications. This latest session was focused on “new collaborative workspaces, how they’re effecting the way we work, and the key technologies that are driving these changes” Twitter performance seemed a little slow [...]

WmChamberlain posted some thoughts this week over in the “At the teachers desk” blog about the value of online conversations. I started a response which ended up being a post of its own, which I present for your edutainment The online conversation attention problem worries me more than the asynchronous nature of the conversations that [...]

Last weekend Kym decided enough was enough and she would have to procure her own Laptop seeing as she wasn’t having much luck getting keyboard time on our communal desktop. So off to town we went with credit-card in hand, in to Smiths Dicks to browse the dozens of laptops on offer, eventually striking up [...]

One of my colleagues forwarded me a great blog post by Tony Hirst from last year which wrapped up important features and opportunities for use of RSS as a sort of call to arms, or manifesto as Tony refers to it. The post got me thinking about one particular aspect of RSS talk that winds [...]