Great Holidays for Great Hair
"How was your holiday?" "Fine. Yours?" "So-so. I had great hair, though." "Really?" "Yeah. Fantastic hair. Too bad it was wasted on New Year's Eve." "Yeah. It's too bad you can't create a holiday when you have great hair." "Like those Tuesday's in February?" "Yeah. I always have great hair
“Waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder…”
I came upon a colleague's web site yesterday. He works in a completely different business line and office than I do, so it would seem unlikely that I'd ever see his blog. If it weren't for the fact that I read wide and far on subjects that are completely outside
Nice Summation of My Classification Problem
Adam Mathes has written an excellent paper, Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata, that describes (in far more elegant and succinct terms) the issues that I've experienced in my quest to categorize my personal information, blogs, links, etc. I am a little wiser and more educated about
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki posits in The Wisdom of Crowds that "Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future" and spends 270 pages supporting that theory. I really enjoyed this book. He makes
Problems with keeping content and reading so many blogs…
I've been looking at my Bloglines subscriptions and Furl links to ferrit out the meaning behind the categories I use. It's led me to question how I really use this content and the effectiveness of these categories I've chosen. So, what have I come up with? A big mess and
Ego Subscription Surfing…
I've always been a bit fascinated by how people organize their bookmarks. #Geek Anyway, I've noticed that some folks have subscribed to the feed for this site (hello! welcome!) and I couldn't help but wonder what folder my feed would live in. Would I be left hanging in an unordered
