The WordPress O2 plugin with P2-Breathe theme results in a Facebook-like or Twitter-like streaming interface. The idea was first presented in 2013, evolving from the P2 theme in 2009 (originally launched as Prologue in 2008) when hosted on wordpress.com. “Beau…
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2013/07/27 Beau Lebens “Taking WordPress to the Front End with O2” (web video)
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“alphaWorks 10” (web video) | Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Rod Smith, Gina Poole | Oct. 4, 2006
Rod Smith, VP, Emerging Technologies-SWG, Gina Poole, VP, Innovation and University Relations, and Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP, Technical Strategy and Innovation, talk about alphaWorks celebrating ten years of ushering in emerging technologies that have helped shape the technology landscape. And, as…
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Cantonese Vs. Mandarin | Aug. 25, 2013 | Off the Great Wall
On our family visit back to our ancestral village at Lougang (or Lowkong), the members of the collective group mostly spoke no more than two of four dialects, from the heritage Toisanese, to local standard Cantonese, the modern Mandarin, and…
Geoffrey Bowker, “Memory Practices in the Sciences” (MP3 audio) | Feb. 5, 2008 | Library Cafe, WVKR-FM
Scientific knowledge has changed from its19th century origins, through 20th century industrialization into 21st century information economy. Have practices changed? Geoffrey C. Bowker, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at…
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Comment on Getting better at working at the office | sacha chua :: living an awesome life
@sachac While working, I find jazz better than classical music to keep me energized. On web radio, I like The Grooveyard at http://www.jazz.fm/player/streams/index.htm , the Jazz Music Stream at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ or Attention Span Radio on Live365 http://www.live365.com/stations/bamman Comment on Getting…
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Sean Quinlan, “Storage at Scale” (MP3 audio), O’Reilly Media Velocity Conference, IT Conversations, 2008/06/24
When massive volumes of data is expected to always be available on the Internet, how is that engineered? A one in a million hardware fluke would happen every day at Google, so reliability must be handled by smart software. In…
- The Systems Approach and Its Enemies | C. West Churchman | 1979Since "The Systems Approach and Its Enemies", by C. West Churchman (1979) is out of print, some excerpts may guide researchers whether a trip to the library is worthwhile.
- Open Innovation Learning, Book LaunchVideo and audio recordings of the launch of my book, Open Innovation Learning, may be a more accessible preliminary way into the content, with the open access publication better as a reference.
- Eight infographics on Systems Methods (UToronto iSchool 2018)The UToronto iSchool graduate student groups created 8 infographics reflecting impressions on the systems methods most relevant to their research in winter 2018.
- Negotiating Order with Generative Pattern LanguageA workshop at PLoP 2017 framed dialogue as "Creating Order of" and "Negotiating Order with" frames of reference, to encourage collective sensemaking
- Exploring the Context of Pattern LanguagesPattern language is not for wicked problems, said Max Jacobson, coauthor with Christopher Alexander of the 1977 A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction. In addition, the conventional definition of an Alexandrian pattern as “a solution to a problem in context” when applied to social change might better use the term “intervention”, rather than “solu […]
- Multiparadigm Inquiry Generating Service Systems ThinkingExpanding pattern language to service systems through multiparadigm inquiry sweeps in research by scholars contemporaneous to Christopher Alexander.
- 2018/06 Moments June 2018Summer in Toronto, close to home. Transport almost exclusively by bicycle.
- 2018/05 Moments May 2018Barely recovered from jet lag from China, bounced back to west coast for some continuing research. Returned home as spring turns into summer.
- 2018/04 Moments April 2018Relearning to walk, after ankle in cast, across Shanghai, Wuhan and Vancouver, with DY as my sherpa.
- 2018/03 Moments March 2018A month in Toronto, as I came out of the Air Cast for my Achilles Tendon injury from December, and started physiotherapy.
- 2018/02 Moments February 2018A second month when the only occasions to leave the house required my spouse to accompany me.
- 2018/01 Moments January 2018Ankle in a cast, a limited mobility month, maximum 10km from home
- The Systems Approach and its Enemies Helps Us Find the Morality of a Revised Democracy | van Gigch | 2006In a book series celebrating C. West Churchman, John P. van Gigch digests (and portends to extend) The Systems Approach and its Enemies. On enemies … 4.1 A MATTER OF DEFINITIONS: ADVERSARIES VERSUS ENEMIES I note the similarity/difference between the words ‘enemy’ and ‘adversary.’ Other authors use the word adversary (ies) to denote all the […]
- Restoring Legitimacy to the Systems Approach | Clinton J. Andrews | 2000A public policy professor, Clinton J. Andrews, looks at how The Systems Approach may encounter problems in skepticism from engineering practice. The systems approach is one general way of going about tackling a problem; some others include the experimental, political, moral, religious, and aesthetic approaches [1,p. 5], [2]. The systems approach to a problem […]
- The Systems Approach: Its Variety of Aspects | Richard Mattessich | 1982An informed view of the Systems Approach from 1982. (Richard Mattessich was a well-respected professor at UBC when I started in the doctoral program in 1982, but I wouldn’t get to appreciate the Systems Approach as described by C. West Churchman until the ISSS 1998 meeting). In his latest work [The Systems Approach and its […]
- A logic model for philanthropic effectiveness | Peter Frumkin | 2006Program evaluation can be approached from the philanthropic perspective. In searching for ways to give money effectively, donors have many options and confront a wide range of theories about how to achieve impact. It is possible to think about these theories as falling into three main categories: theories of change, theories of leverage, and theories […]
- Program Logic Models and Theory of Change | Kellogg Foundation | 2004From the program evaluation community, with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation … The program logic model is defined as a picture of how your organization does its work – the theory and assumptions underlying the program. A program logic model links outcomes (both short- and long-term) with program activities/processes and the theoretical assumptions/principles of t […]
- Restoring Manjaro Grub after Ubuntu upgradeOn a multi-boot Linux computer where Ubuntu has already been installed, adding on Manjaro Linux installs its own version of Grub (that I’ll call Arch-Grub) that is different but compatible with that previously installed (that I’ll call Debian-Grub). Updating Ubuntu to a newer version (or installing an older version) restores Debian-Grub, replacing the workin […]
