On the oracle blog, I wrote a little piece on prompting for tags and categories. I was very taken with the idea from Elias Torres that there should be Karma rewards for innovating the vocabulary and was struggling with how to cope with words changing meaning. My contemporary example was “High Availability”. I very briefly looked at the way prompting inhibited innovation of the vocabulary. …
Evangelising Opensource in Edinburgh
I was stood in for Simon Phipps at www2006 in Edinburgh, and paid Edinburgh a visit. I wrote up my notes on my sun/oracle blog. AS with other posts originally made there, I copied them to this blog in March 2016, but in this case, I have merged them into a single post. I The conference was opened by John McConnel, Scotland’s first minister who spoke of a Scotland’s e-University, and was followed by Sir David Browne, (Chairman of Motorola) who told an interesting story about mobility and the network, from movable devices, via luggable laptops to today’s phones, although the fashion for Zoolander style tiny phones was probably on the wane by then. His story provoked the though that the critical technology for mobile computing was the development of the portable (and rechargable) battery. …
Why aren’t you using del.icio.us???
I’ve just undertaken a demo of del.icio.us for a friend, who’s read my previous articles and told me that I undersell it. Personally, I think I’ve been a bit of a mono-maniac on the subject. So for those of you who don’t get it. del.icio.us is Great. Its a fantastic example of, the next problem to be solved. …