Still sick, coughing, shivering, sweating, miserable. One good thing has come out of this, though. I’m sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, and there’s one thing I know I can (and should) do to make things better. I am quitting my terrible smoking habit. Potential embarrassment and shame about failure will be a further incentive, so I’m announcing here there and everywhere. I’ve got a quit date – next Wednesday April 15th. I took my first Chantix pill…
My posts have been less frequent and less original. I’m slipping. So here I am, thinking about a great train of thought to share. I’m getting a blank. Nada. I don’t know what to make of the economy except for an unsubstantiated intuition that this is going to be a difficult couple of years regardless of what is done to try to stabilize the situation. That doesn’t really help anyone. I’m suddenly profoundly uninterested in what should be the media’s…
The highly successful Facebook meme “25 Random Things about Me” has now – for good or ill – made it into the major news media. Time, Salon, and newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have all carried stories on the trendy epidemic and how it’s vectored. It’s only a variation of the memes bloggers have been playing with for more than five years now, but considering the viral theme I think it’s kinda neat that I’m…
I’ll be speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, June 17, 2009! Messy Folksonomies: The Uses of Metanoise for Better Organizational Collaboration This presentation will consider the uses of bottom-up, co-evolving folksonomies for better communication and collaboration across disciplinary lines. For reasons of efficiency, semantic technologies often focus on terminological control. However, where several types of discourse exist within the same organization, a layer of bottom-up vocabulary provides a space for the change…
This is the kind of feedback that makes it all worthwhile. Thank you for responding, and best wishes to you on your journey! Until recently, I was just an ex-JW. But now I’m really trying to become a recovering JW. I realized that as soon as I was df’d, I just threw myself into a frenzy of activities and poor choices, with no real direction. I think I was trying to stay busy so I’d forget about it all. But…
Wow – thanks for sending, Peggy! Click for full image.