Category Archives: Abject Learning

Info Originally uploaded by courtneyp. Among the things I’ve been brooding over lately is the notion of information overload… It’s one of those tricky concepts that most people intuitively understand on some sort of common sense level, and it’s widely … Continue reading →

Today this weblog was on the receiving end of a mashup. The resulting text is more coherent and lucid than the source material: My presentation on wikis required me to make it easy and fun to get to the remarkably … Continue reading →

Here’s a Biology Professor that can generate some seriously intense vibes — in this case directed at the poor sap who stole his laptop during a previous class. “I’m the only hope you’ve got of staying out of deeper trouble … Continue reading →

Maybe I was feeling a little buzzed by the subject matter of my previous post, or maybe I was just feeling info-logged, but whatever it was about forty-five minutes ago I could tell that my brain was not operating properly. … Continue reading →

Co-worker asleep Originally uploaded by ldandersen. After struggling to drag my sleepy self onto the bus to work this morning, my daily paper greeted me with a headline admonishing that If you slept till 5:30 this morning, you slept in. … Continue reading →

I never did write a summary of the weblog conference. In part that’s because it was such a blast on so many levels, and such a frenetic burst of activity, that I am simply overwhelmed at the thought of trying … Continue reading →

Earlier today I was asked to appear on tomorrow’s broadcast of CBC Vancouver’s The Early Edition to talk about the Northern Voice weblog conference. Thankfully, it won’t all be up to me — Darren Barefoot will also be in the … Continue reading →

Whoa Nellie… I keep saying I’m going to slow things down, that time taken out of the hurly-burly for reflection can only improve my performance… but I seem incapable of extricating myself from the day-to-day. I had hoped to write … Continue reading →

Nofollow… wonder how this will kick in? From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site … Continue reading →

As I slowly regained my strength over the Christmas holidays, I made a few vague resolutions for what I hoped would be a fresh start in 2005. I would try to read a bit more from actual books, even if … Continue reading →