Great challenge presented by Seth. I'm intrigued by #2: swap out 120 minutes of your day to do effort-ful things on the "instead" list. - Thomas Kriese
Happy to see that I score 88 of 100. It's the use of power tools that tripped me up from the high 90s. Guess I'd better go hang out at Lowes this weekend. - Thomas Kriese
Great reminder of the living web metaphor of web sites as buildings (static) v web sites as sites for human activity. very useful applications for this in creating a network's information sources. - Thomas Kriese
On the face of it, this app has the potential to be a good hosted stand-in for the Questions tool that the Berkman folks distribute to great effect. - Thomas Kriese
Choice quote: When considering a social network, you should ask the question, “What’s the social object within this service? If you can’t answer that question, the service is in trouble.” - Thomas Kriese
Glad to see Campbell use this tactic... it's about time we started testing the mettle of Palin to see if she's, indeed, worthy of the VP job. If she is, so be it. If she's not, we need to know. - Thomas Kriese
Lee beat me to the punch in posting how he's dealing with this challenge. I've given up trying to get my RSS reader to consistently have fewer than 100 items waiting... instead I celebrate when I manage to get under the 1000+ flag. Why so many items? Because of the blogs I feel I *should* be reading (but don't). Resolved: to unsubscribe from the shoulds by the end of the month. - Thomas Kriese
And the pullquote of this post is "People will recommend something if adoption improves their lives." The question is: what is it that you do that improves others' lives? - Thomas Kriese
lovely, lovely maps. Pretty and interesting, but so what? Would really love to be able to point to a story where a map made someone behave substantively differently than they would have not seeing it (GPS point-to-point directions excluded). - Thomas Kriese
Ross smartly notes "Perspective, and the cost of it is decreasing rapidly so long as you are willing to share. And we know where the trendline of sharing is going."
There's two parts to the sharing cost: one is actually recording the event (tech is making it easier) and the other part of it is the pushing through the self-consciousness of sharing what's otherwise mundane or even could be seen as unsavory. Only by example can we help folks through the second barrier. - Thomas Kriese
Stowe Boyd quotes Thompson's article extensively and then adds a teaser at the end re: streaming's applicability in the workplace. I'm hoping Thompson does address this "cutting room floor" material in another article or releases Boyd to explore it more thoroughly in his own writing. - Thomas Kriese
So, if we are bad at judging the boundaries between open and closed, if it’s important to get it right, then it’s beholden on us to create the institutions of civil society that enable us to get past our biases. Creative Commons is one such. It provides an infrastructure for sharing our work. - Thomas Kriese
This "explainer" business is what will help change the frames through which people interact with their world. It's not enough to just "lead by example" anymore. Now you've got to explain why you're even creating the example as a means to helping others know they even need to be led. - Thomas Kriese
One of my long time favorite "explainers" is NPR's Robert Krulwich. He explains the most complex scientific concepts in humorous, entertaining, basic terms that I can even understand! - Nicola Beddow
