Tammy Green » Archive for March 2007
Here she is….Miss Internet…
For reasons I’d rather not examine to closely, I was drawn to the SF Gate story about how the Miss America pagent was dropped by CMT. Due to CMT’s shift to more original programming, the pagent is homeless, stale, tired, and unwanted. It almost makes you feel like crying…almost… I started thinking. If the owners want the pagent to continue, why not turn it into something more original? Modernize it a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology Shift
Evolving Folksonomies
An article in the New York TImes yesterday discussed how museum curators planned to use the general public and tagging to categorize artwork. Apparently the classification systems in use by most museums aren’t keeping pace with the times because people aren’t able to find specific pieces of art easily from their on-line collections. Using the idea of folksonomy (from Flickr & other sites), the museums created a system where tags are submitted by the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology Shift
Why I don’t keep all my technical eggs in one basket
I use Google as my primary e-mail address, and for their calendar and collaborative documents & spreadsheets services. However, there’s a reason I still have a hotmail account, a bloglines set-up and other goods & services spread out over the web instead of using a vertical provider — I expect failure. Don’t think I’m down on the Web because I’m the biggest fan the Internet has. I’ve just worked on the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
Keepers of each other – digital identity management extends to friends, family, loved ones
There have been a lot of articles written, pro and con, about managing your on-line identity, but I haven’t seen much about our responsibility with managing other’s identities or how far it should go. Our lives are not lived in a vacuum – we eat with friends, go to parties and events, meet people on-line and off. Later, things are discussed, photos shared, and entries blogged. I’ve always been careful about using … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life, Photography
Media Source Meme – some questions/observations
Jack, over at Knowledge Jolt, recently completed the Media Source Meme that’s been making its way across certain Web circles. If you haven’t seen it, you’re supposed to list the media sources that you use (web, print, audio, video) so that others are better informed about your approach/slant/angle. I’ve been browsing through these posts when I find them and I think there are some deeper questions and reflection that could take place to make it truly useful. Here’s the comment I left on Jack’s blog: How frequently do people turn media sources over? I think there’s a tendency to amplify what we’re comfortable with — reading knowledge management because knowledge management is what we know. I’m curious about how folks (not just you) allow serendipitous content/information sources into their … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life