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Opinion: The Beginning of The Archivist
A couple years ago, my friend irhetoric and I were chatting about Twitter, as we were at the end of building Flotzam, a social networking aggregator tool that collects and visualizes the ephemeral information floating around in the social sphere. In some ways, this ephemerality is beautiful: all this information swirls around us like leaves that appear and decay over time. On the other hand, if this information is valuable, capturing and keeping it could be useful.
Flotzam on MIX Online
For MIX07, Karsten and I worked up version 1 (alpha) of Flotzam. Flotzam is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that pulls information from your social networks around the web, and visualizes them in a kinda cool way. Flotzam will pull tweets, Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, RSS feeds, and Diggs based on the search [...]
Opinion: The Evolution of The Archivist
In this post, part II of a series, I’ll take a step back and explain how we concepted and executed The Archivist Web (alpha)and talk about what came before the design and code. Check it out on MIX Online
The Archivist Web (alpha)
A few years ago, a co-worker and friend of mine, Karsten Januszewski, built The Archivist Desktop (alpha). Last week we released The Archvist Web (alpha), along with a few assoticated articles. Please check The Archivist out and let us know what you think. Introducing The Archvist The Beginning of The Archivist The Archivist in Academia [...]
Opinion: Bass-ackwards
Back in March I published a little Opinion piece regarding building websites and applications backwards: looking at a solution and applying a problem to it. Check it out and leave a comment. Which comes first, the problem or the solution? IMHO, obviously the problem. So why do we so often develop technology solutions and then [...]
The Archivist Desktop
The Archivist Desktop was originally released as a “mini-lab” and has been installed by users from such varied fields as marketing, software development, social sciences and research. It was a ‘small project’, but Karsten and I thought it was a worthwhile for a few reasons. Read on at MIX Online
Opinion: A Circuitous Route
Question: “If you don’t have the 5 years’ experience requested by the job description, how do you break into the industry?” At industry conferences like MIX10, one of the most important things you can do is attend outside events—the ones hosted ad hoc or set up from people outside “the inner circle.” So often, these [...]
TechEd Online (re)Launched
To correspond with the TechEd North America 2010 conference held in New Orleans June 7 – 10, I was tasked with stewarding the redesign of the TechEd Online site. This site is the home for thousands of videos from TechEd N.A., and past events, and will continue to grow as TechEd makes its way around [...]
Opinion: "Cheers to saying no"
I published a new Opinion today, which stemmed from a conversation Tami and I had about working with one potential client. I’ve been in this situation may times and it totally stinks. You’d like to get the work, you want to be nice, but you *know* that client is a total pain in the ass [...]