Web Designer extraordinaire, Jeffery Zeldman (half-seriously) reveals the secret of successful project management:
The trick to great projects, I have found, is (a.) landing clients with whom you are sympatico, and who understand language, time, and money the same way you do, and (b.) assembling teams you don’t have to lead, because everyone instinctively knows what to do.
One can only wonder what prompted the comment.
I looked up the event listing for our Drupal4Lib BoF at ALA Chicago (Sun. 7/11, 3:30p-5p) and was happy to see we have more than a dozen sign-ups!
That's a good sign.
I put up the Google Friend Connect widget on the far right column. It kind of duplicates what the MyBlogLog widget does though in a more dynamic way.
In any case, sign up today!
I have no idea what role Twitter is playing in Iran. On the one hand, Clay Shirky and the U.S. State Department apparently think it's having a huge role.
On the other hand, a reader quoted by Nico Pitney of the HuffingtonPost says it's 1979 all over again:
"Also - what is happening now with regards to spreading information to the people. They are going back to 79 strategies. basically they are printing papers having people distribute them all over the country. twitter/net etc is not effective right now - they are going back to old-fashioned style. [Sun., 6/21/2009: 12:57 PM ET]"
Then there's this exchange between On the Media host Bob Garfield and a Professor from UC San Diego currently residing in Teheran:
Bob Garfield [3:55]: "Twitter has been at the center of the conversation [sic]. It's unclear how much of a role Twitter has played. But we have seen a lot of press reports of Iranians using Twitter to give a kind of blow-by-blow description -- but more especially those in the Diaspora keeping others apprised of events."
Professor: "Twitter is a recent thing in Iranian society especially among the youngsters. My hunch is that, the Diaspora community has kind of exaggerated the effect of Twitter. Definitely there are some Iranians using Twitter in order to connect with other Iranians outside of Iran. But at this moment, I could assure you, Twitter is not the main kind of new form of communication ... which Iranians are using."
The professor seemed to think that satellite tv with its feeds from the BBC and CNN was having a greater effect.
I'm just coming to grips with the recent upgrade to "Version 7" of the Voyager Book Catalog at DePaul.
I love the use of facets to limit search results but I really wonder if they're going to stick with the status "Not Charged" for books available and on the shelf. It's probably not what most people think when they're headed to the stacks.
You too can have your own 'dream' funeral parlor, no doubt exquisitely furnished, within easy reach of the Loyola Redline Stop and the Lake.
Mick Jacobsen organized an informative and very well attended meeting on Drupal for Librarians at the Oak Park Public Library today. I was happy to see a few familiar faces from our Drupal BoF at DePaul earlier in the year.
Jenny Levine led off with a discussion of ALA Connect and what impressed me wasn't simply what they've been able to put together but their future plans for incorporating functionality.
Next Mick Jacobsen and Michael Buhmann from Skokie Public discussed Skokie Business Portal which at the time unfortunately was suffering from CSS indigestion.
Afterwards, Mick spent some time discussing Panels and we even managed to squeeze in a bit of time discussing Drupal in small groups.
I'm so sick of hearing about Twitter. On the Media Hype Index™, it's reaching Krispy Kreme proportions*.
The FCC has been charged by Congress to come up with a plan to provide high-speed Internet access to all Americans. A group of Internet luminaries, including everyone from Vint Cerf to Larry Lessig, has come together to remind the FCC that what counts ultimately isn't the speed of the connection but what it connects to.
They've set up a site, appropriately named, 'ItsTheInternetStupid.com' where you can read what they've submitted and even add your endorsement.
Chicago Blues great Koko Taylor has passed away.
That's really sad. I remember seeing her at a club (probably on Lincoln Ave.) back in the day. I told her I was moving to Paris the next week. She hugged me and told me to take care of myself.
It was the best send-off a guy from Chicago, new to foreign countries, could have gotten.
RIP.
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