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"@sachachua, there’s a warmth to a small group (i.e. less than 7 people) and being in person. Sitting in a circle, there’s enough people to keep the conversation energized, yet not so many that the conversation splits into subgroups. I compare this to the traditional Chinese dinner setting of ten people, where conversations invariably split into three subgroups (or more, when the restaurant becomes noisy). I’m comfortable working at a distance, and treat face-to-face time in small groups as a privilege to look forward to. Since I often use Skype as my preferred instant messaging platform — the chat is quite stable — I’ve taken to saving groups of individuals in an ongoing transcript of communications. When we’re all online, we can press the call button, and speak together. My international colleagues have become accustomed to this, so while shared transcripts don’t replace face-to-face or voice communications, they seem seem to help bridge those occasions." - David Ing

Created 25 hours ago last 1 comments, out of 6 daviding says: Dec 19 at 04:08 AM One post a day! I'm lucky if I can get one post per month! I do have to admit that I'm not exactly writing short stories, though. My styles is more like essays. add comment - David Ing

Created 59 minutes ago last 1 comments, out of 1 daviding says: Dec 20 at 04:44 AM @sachachua, there's a warmth to a small group (i.e. less than 7 people) and being in person. Sitting in a circle, there's enough people to keep the conversation energized, yet not so many that the conversation splits into subgroups. I compare this to the traditional Chinese dinner setting of ten people, where conversations invariably split into three subgroups (or more, when the restaurant becomes noisy). I'm comfortable working at a distance, and treat face-to-face time in small groups as a privilege to look forward to. Since I often use Skype as my preferred instant messaging platform -- the chat is quite stable -- I've taken to saving groups of individuals in an ongoing transcript of communications. When we're all online, we can press the call button, and speak together. My international colleagues have become accustomed to this, so while shared transcripts don't replace face-to-face or voice... - David Ing

"@sachachua, thanks for the encouragement. In addition to the serious nature of the Coevolving Innovations blog, I’d actually much prefer to be working on the travel photos of my Distractions, Reflections blog. I do find logging the MP3 audio on the Media Input Queue to be a bit of a chore, but it’s helped me pre-empt listening to the same talk twice! I can’t seem to get into tweeting as a conversational engagement — maybe it’s my introversion preferring to exchange with a smaller group rather than the world at large — and have been experimenting with a microblog called In Brief. David Ing on wordpress.COM, alerting via the P2 theme. This feeds into Twitter (via Twitterfeed within 15 minutes. So I guess that I should recant my statement of only blogging once per month, because I have different blog streams for different audiences." - David Ing

daviding says: As we look towards the shutdown of NTSC, maybe Rogers Cable television isn't the only alternative looking forward. - David Ing

32 years of MP3 audio? That's an interesting way to express petabytes. Let us know if your ears last that long - David Ing

Created 8 minutes ago last 1 comments, out of 6 daviding says: Dec 20 at 04:28 AM @sachachua, thanks for the encouragement. In addition to the serious nature of the Coevolving Innovations blog, I'd actually much prefer to be working on the travel photos of my Distractions, Reflections blog. I do find logging the MP3 audio on the Media Input Queue to be a bit of a chore, but it's helped me pre-empt listening to the same talk twice! I can't seem to get into tweeting as a conversational engagement -- maybe it's my introversion preferring to exchange with a smaller group rather than the world at large -- and have been experimenting with a microblog called In Brief. David Ing on wordpress.COM, alerting via the P2 theme. This feeds into Twitter (via Twitterfeed within 15 minutes. So I guess that I should recant my statement of only blogging once per month, because I have different blog streams for different audiences. add comment - David Ing

Created 18 hours ago last 1 comments, out of 5 daviding says: Dec 19 at 04:08 AM One post a day! I'm lucky if I can get one post per month! I do have to admit that I'm not exactly writing short stories, though. My styles is more like essays. add comment - David Ing

daviding says: When you get older, you can make the fonts on the screen larger! - David Ing

"One post a day! I’m lucky if I can get one post per month! I do have to admit that I’m not exactly writing short stories, though. My styles is more like essays." - David Ing

Not all Picasa users upload their photos to Picasa Web Albums. The following third party tools allow you to upload photos from the Picasa software to third party sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Smugmug. Take a look below for more information: Facebook The third-party Facebook Picasa uploader plugin adds an Upload to Facebook button to Picasa. Works for both PC and Mac versions of Picasa. This software was not created by Google or Facebook, and is not affiliated with either of these companies. Smugmug SmugMug offers a plugin that adds an Upload to SmugMug button to Picasa. Works for both PC and Mac versions of Picasa. Flickr The third-party picasa2flickr uploader plugin adds a Send to Flickr button to Picasa. Works for the PC version of Picasa. This software was not created by Google or Yahoo, and is not affiliated with either of these companies. - David Ing

Downloaders, Uploaders, Utilities - David Ing

The following is the comparison of prices of online printing services. In no way to we endorse or guarantee the prices or services, all the price lists are taken from the companies' websites (Last checked July 2007). A useful resource if your are trying to decide where to get your digital photos turned into prints (in Canada and the U.S.) - David Ing

Created Dec 2 last 1 comments, out of 3 daviding says: Dec 2 at 00:48 AM You're fortunate in that you're working at the intersection set of things that you're good at, you love doing, and can be paid for. As your career progresses, you'll get opportunities where you'll have to face up to moving forward ... and thereby giving up at least one of those three dimensions. People have to be careful what they wish for ... because they might get it. add comment - David Ing

daviding says: Design comes to the aid of an everyday object: the huge electrical power plug. (via @ian_g ) - David Ing

I'm interested in displaying the feed of when I start and end trips, the same feed that's sent to Facebook or friendfeed, on my website. Is there a way to access this in Atom format? - David Ing

daviding says: Yes, it's a mystery. (via @ljrich) - David Ing

"The speedtest put Canada as #38 in download speed (at 6.13 Mb/s) and #40 in upload speed (at 1.1 Mb/s). It’s humbling to be trounced by Latvia! It’s interesting that the Toronto Public Library is recognized as the top ISP close to me, at 32.8 Mb/s, which is above the #1 country average of Korea at 25.3 Mb/s. We’ve been hearing that the economic downturn has a lot of people using the Internet from the Public Library … and I didn’t understand that they were getting world class service!" - David Ing

Created 1 hour ago last 1 comments, out of 2 daviding says: Dec 16 at 19:26 PM I wouldn't necessarily categorize formal mentoring as working with a superior. I would agree that formal mentoring should involve some recording of goals (e.g. 1-year horizon, 5-year horizon) as well as some regular periodicity (i.e. a formal time set up quarterly, semi-annually or annually). You seem to have picked up on a lot of informal mentors on topics at hand. While this tends to relieve the pressure on a single mentor to coordinate meetings, it also tends to put the burden on the mentee to ask each of the mentors for guidance on specific topics. I've tended to avoid the word mentee, preferring the term protege, which has the sense of "protecting" in its entymology. I would also differentiate mentoring from coaching, which is more about skills transfer and less about guardianship. add comment - David Ing

Created 37 minutes ago last 1 comments, out of 1 daviding says: Dec 16 at 19:07 PM Changing Wordpress themes? I wouldn't have known, because I was reading the blog post in RssOwl. add comment - David Ing

Created 3 minutes ago last 1 comments, out of 3 daviding says: Dec 16 at 19:41 PM The speedtest put Canada as #38 in download speed (at 6.13 Mb/s) and #40 in upload speed (at 1.1 Mb/s). It's humbling to be trounced by Latvia! It's interesting that the Toronto Public Library is recognized as the top ISP close to me, at 32.8 Mb/s, which is above the #1 country average of Korea at 25.3 Mb/s. We've been hearing that the economic downturn has a lot of people using the Internet from the Public Library ... and I didn't understand that they were getting world class service! add comment - David Ing

Created 18 minutes ago last 1 comments, out of 1 daviding says: Dec 16 at 19:26 PM I wouldn't necessarily categorize formal mentoring as working with a superior. I would agree that formal mentoring should involve some recording of goals (e.g. 1-year horizon, 5-year horizon) as well as some regular periodicity (i.e. a formal time set up quarterly, semi-annually or annually). You seem to have picked up on a lot of informal mentors on topics at hand. While this tends to relieve the pressure on a single mentor to coordinate meetings, it also tends to put the burden on the mentee to ask each of the mentors for guidance on specific topics. I've tended to avoid the word mentee, preferring the term protege, which has the sense of "protecting" in its entymology. I would also differentiate mentoring from coaching, which is more about skills transfer and less about guardianship. add comment - David Ing

"I wouldn’t necessarily categorize formal mentoring as working with a superior. I would agree that formal mentoring should involve some recording of goals (e.g. 1-year horizon, 5-year horizon) as well as some regular periodicity (i.e. a formal time set up quarterly, semi-annually or annually). You seem to have picked up on a lot of informal mentors on topics at hand. While this tends to relieve the pressure on a single mentor to coordinate meetings, it also tends to put the burden on the mentee to ask each of the mentors for guidance on specific topics. I’ve tended to avoid the word mentee, preferring the term protege, which has the sense of “protecting” in its entymology. I would also differentiate mentoring from coaching, which is more about skills transfer and less about guardianship." - David Ing

Well folks we all knew it was only a matter of time before Bell discontinued their own POP servers, today the writing is on the wall. As of 2010 the old 'sympatico.POP' servers (proxies) will be replaced with the Bell designated Hotmail POP servers. - David Ing

Migratr is a desktop application which moves photos between popular photo sharing services. Migratr will also migrate your metadata, including the titles, tags, descriptions and album organization. Whether you want to copy your photos from Flickr to Faces, Picasa to Phanfare, or Zenfolio to Zooomr, Migratr is the app for you. Migratr will copy your photos FROM any supported photo service, TO any supported photo service. - David Ing

daviding says: I'm working on the schedule with my day job (all the way across the country) to try to attend this Russell Ackoff memorial. - David Ing

daviding says: The four types of conversation are similar to ones that I've seen the language-action perspective. Finding out if they have common or different roots is worth a library visit. - David Ing

Created 1 hour ago last 1 comments, out of 10 daviding says: Dec 8 at 20:02 PM (Off topic). I'm following a Backtype trail to your blog, and have discovered that a "best registry cleaner" associated my blog address to a reply left on your blog. This would seem to be an inept version of trackback spam that defies logic! (I won't be offended if you delete this reply, and the the spam reply, too!) add comment - David Ing

"(Off topic). I’m following a Backtype trail to your blog, and have discovered that a “best registry cleaner” associated my blog address to a reply left on your blog. This would seem to be an inept version of trackback spam that defies logic! (I won’t be offended if you delete this reply, and the the spam reply, too!)" - David Ing

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