tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36938012012-02-16T03:02:07.521-08:00I am a gardener and I think of ideas in the same way. This space is for growing some of these thoughts, tending them, and showing off the harvest. It's an organic thing and there may be a few weeds, but that's really OK.Noreen Whyselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13836314378280851336noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693801.post-80283759981501966672012-01-24T20:19:00.000-08:002012-01-24T20:28:52.980-08:00

Imagine if the most graphic and expressive artifacts from one of the most historic events in New York City lay rolled in tubes in a dusty corner. What if millions of bytes of geographic data, produced through an unprecedented, community collaboration, were dispersed, disconnected and hidden from public view? If you had the opportunity to preserve them, how would you do it? During the September

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The NYC GeoSymposium: 2001-2011-2021 held on November 16, 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks by examining the response of the NYC GIS community regarding mobilization of geospatial resources after the event, evolution of procedures, data and technologies since the event, and exploring unmet needs for improved emergency planning and response, as well as future

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World IA Day has just announced 14 locations for February 11, 2012 1 DAY. 14 CITIES. World IA Day 2012 is about bringing the Information Architecture community together. We’re fostering links within local communities and on a global scale. We’re sharing information, ideas and research. And we’re doing it through unconventional, exciting and engaging IA events this February. The first ever

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This past weekend, while Irene was threatening the East Coast, my husband and I were in the Catskills for visiting day at our daughters' summer camp. We decided to extend our stay through Monday to avoid the surge and inevitable traffic delays following the storm's projected landfall in New York City on Sunday. Rather than avoid trouble, we found ourselves in the middle of it, as the Catskills

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I just finished reading Roadmap for the Digital City: Achieving New York City's Digital Future (PDF 2.17MB). A glaring economic concern struck me, which the report acknowledges but does not address adequately, despite devoting several pages to it, and that is the issue of access by underserved populations. Solutions offered by the plan include noble goals. Free wireless access in parks,

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I am almost finished with the NYC Digital Roadmap and will have a blog post coming soon. In the meantime, there is a lot of new publications on Information Architecture. Put this on your nightstand, bring it to the beach or carry it on the metro, cause we've got reading to do: IA Institute just released Newsletter #6.05 with Part Two of Finding IA at the Enterprise Search Summit by Shari

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Over the next couple of days I am going to post summaries of Internet Week sessions that I attended last month. Here is the first, a panel on open government in NYC: In June, I attended a panel on Open Goverment in NYC, hosted by Time Warner as part of Internet Week NYC. I joined my friend, Queens Community Board 3 member, Tom Lowenhaupt, who has been advocating for a .NYC top level domain for

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I was having a nice conservation on Monday with my friend, journalist Amanda Robb, about topics that floated in interesting ways from pitching social awareness campaigns to women's magazines to the role of Twitter and other social media in reporting. The conversation got me thinking about the two different angles that we approach our respective careers in media: she with the words and stories and

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I am in the process of consolidating some of my writings into this new Blogger format. As much as I love the integration, flexibility and ownership of a self-hosted WordPress blog, I have been finding it to be increasingly a chore to update my installations. So much so that I've lost track of my words, which I promised myself I would never do, choosing instead to leave them as guest postings and

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I appear to be a late joiner to Google+, if the list of people in my contact's circles are any indication. It appears to have pulled my info from LinkedIn and has features of Facebook and a very interesting what if discussion among designers going on. I expect it will be a similar experience to LinkedIn and Facebook, perhaps with less of the silliness of Facebook but with similar features, such

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(this article originally appeared at iainstitute.org on June 20, 2011) Last month in May, I had the pleasure of attending the Enterprise Search Summit East in New York City with IA Institute board member, Shari Thurow. Shari and I were on a quest to discover the role of information architecture in Enterprise Search. We didn't have to look too far, as both days were keynoted by IA Institute

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At the IA Institute Annual Members' Meeting held in Denver on April 2, the Board of Directors presented a new framework for characterizing the relationships that the Institute will mediate going forward.  The framework came out of a board strategy meeting that I attended in Iceland back in February. Read more in the April newsletter and see some very cool (OK, cold) Iceland pictures in my

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The New York Times' Interactive Map of the Damage from the Earthquake in Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-earthquake-map/index.html?hp I was able to locate the town where my friend Pia's brother is teaching English (center of quake zone but far from the nuclear plants, very little structural damage, no casualties) and where my daughter's camp friend's

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The IA Institute released its 2010 IA Institute Salary and Benefits Survey. Highlights of the 2010 Salary Survey include: Median Salary: The highest salary range was a tie between the USD$80,000-90,000 and USD$90,000-100,000 ranges, each representing 12.8% of the total responses. The average salary was estimated to be USD$95,252, up $5,252 from 2009.   Freelance Rates: Excluding outliers,

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The IA Institute is discussing a Code of Conduct for members of the Board of Directors. Board member, Jeff Parks, suggested basing the document on Google's corporate Code of Conduct, which begins with the mantra, "Don't Be Evil." From the IA Institute Minutes blog: * Code of Conduct In order to show our desire to keep the Board of Directors accountable to the highest possible ethical and

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Steve Romalewski posted notes on NYC GIS Summit 2010 at: http://spatialityblog.com/2010/05/24/notes-from-nysgissummit2010/ Feel free to post any comments, different opinions, more detailed feedback if you attended. Also check out Steve's post about a new feature in Google Maps – the ability to modify the cartographic styles used in Google’s basemap. He's interested in thoughts about how this

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Amy Jeu sent me this announcement. If you love mapping and love mentoring kids, don't miss this opportunity: The Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) software company ESRI has partnered with National Geographic to recruit GIS professionals to mentor students. In true GIS form, they present a map of who is mentoring where. So far, no one has volunteered in NYC (as of Nov. 5). Participation is a

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The 2009 IA Institute Salary and Benefits Survey is now open at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rnk5PuDVMuIRC1QwwS9PtA_3d_3d The survey takes only a minute or two to complete, so we hope you'll stop by and contribute. We have made slight edits from last year including a much simpler matrix of responses for IA related tasks, a more normalized breakdown of salary ranges and a further

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(Originally posted in comments to Whitney Hess' blog, Pleasure & Pain) My favorite mentor story is about a psychology professor I worked for during my senior year at Columbia. He ran the Vision Science Laboratory with three or four graduate students. I showed up on my first day and he threw me a small red book, called Programming in C, and told me to learn it so I can help "reprogram the

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In response to a LinkedIn discussion thread about how the internet changed networking, I had the following to say: I'll state up front that I'm in a field (information architecture) that is heavy user of social media and I have been involved in internet technology since I was at the College in the 80s. I have been networking frequently on the internet since 1997. Starting with AOL and Compuserv

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From the January/February Columbia College Today alumni magazine: Columbia College Women held a Mentoring Program launch reception on November 27 in the President’s Room at Faculty House, with about 100 alumnae and students in attendance. Noreen Whysel ’90, who co-coordinates CCW with Alumni Affairs Assistant Director Stella Miele-Zanedis, welcomed the attendees and explained the evening’s

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An article on appraisal reviews that I wrote with Jim MacCrate is now available at ssrn.com: Appraisal Reviews and Their Importance by James R. MacCrate, MacCrate Associates LLC and Noreen Whysel Abstract: Many articles have been written on the art of reviewing appraisal reports by professional real estate appraisers for bank lending and litigation purposes. This article explains why

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Anders Ramsay, User Experience Designer and a long-time mentor in the IA Institute's mentoring program, wrote down some great questions to think about before you approach a prospective mentor. See his list here: Questions for Prospective IAs

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The Information Architecture Survey for the third edition of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld has been released. View at http://findability.org/archives/000131.php

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I am always on the lookout for good articles on taxonomy, because of my interest in the taxonomies of Information Architecture and classic linnean classification of birds. Here are a couple of features from Feb 9 Economist: Names for sale Feb 9th 2006 From The Economist print edition The ancient science of taxonomy might benefit from a little modern marketing http://www.economist.com/

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The March 2006 issue of Natural History Magazine (the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History) has a cover feature called "Learning to Find Your Way," studying the biological pathways of spatial memory. Not yet available online, but available at newstands: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0306/0306_toc.html

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Based on a recent request on the IA Institute Job Board, I have compiled some IA/UX salary information resources. As soon as the IAI salary survey comes out, I'll post a link here. Very few of the postings I receive on the IA Institute Job Board have salary information, but a typical salary/rate conversion is: salary = 2/3 rate times 2080 (40 hours per week for a year) The 1/3 reduction

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From an online discussion group: Jones, P.H. (2002). Embedded values in process and practice: Interactions between disciplinary practice and formal innovation processes. 11th International Forum on Design Management Research. Boston, June 2002. This academic article discussed the problems with structured process, and the types of informal practices that were adopted by internal communities in

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For an overview of CMS for a non-technical audience, try James Robertson's excellent site: http://www.steptwo.com.au/ Also try: http://www.designit.com.au/articles/rebuilding_gradlink

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We will be scheduling a CITI training for CBs and CBOs in Brooklyn this spring. The date is dependent upon the number of participants. Training will include basic GIS principles, GIS desktop software and tips for making your own maps. Contact us at citi@mas.org if you would like to participiate. Additional information about the CITI Youth program and how to find rezoning areas can be found in

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Discussion of GoogleMaps has been lively on my User Interface design lists. Overall ratings for Google Maps are good, but I have problems with the way they locate places based on search. GoogleMaps http://maps.google.com/ Posters say they like that you can drag the map and that the directions appear to be more accurate than MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps. To find places on the map, you can use their

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February 9, 2005, Municipal Art Society CITI map technicians Earl Dunn and Marcus Sheftall from Bushwick’s Academy of Urban Planning are becoming celebrities at their local community board meetings. At each meeting of Community Board 4 and its land use committee, the10th graders project large maps on a screen by accessing www.myciti.org with a wireless laptop. Following the meeting’s agenda,

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IA/UX events listingshttp://www.adaptivepath.com/events/ http://www.nngroup.com/events/ http://www.uie.com/events/ http://louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/ http://www.iasummit.org/2005/ http://www.humanfactors.com/training/default.asp www.usability.gov/events/index.htmlInformation

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The South Jersey Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society will be hosting a mini-conference on April 28 & 29, 2005, entitled "Mini-Conference on Human Factors in Complex Sociotechnical Systems." This event will be held at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC), located near the Atlantic City International Airport, New Jersey. The

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From aifia.org: AIfIA sponsors conferences and events helping to build the practice of information architecture. Learn more about AIfIA's sponsorship program at http://aifia.org/pg/ia_events_sponsorship.php#000247 *********** September 30, 2004 -- AIfIA will sponsor Metadata for Interoperability in the Global Corporate Environment, a pre-conference for the DC-2004 International Conference on

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I love finding crossroads where my interests in usability and mapping meet. In Happy Birthday Stop Sign, Eric Reiss discusses the birth and standardization of the ubiquitous stop sign.

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From time to time, I will post some interesting resources and tools in the information architectecture field. Today, you will find a list of Deliverables related to the IA process that were discussed on the AIfIA listserv. Victor Lombardi's Blue wireframe (looks like a blueprint) http://aifia.org/tools/download/LombardiWireframe.pdf Clifton Evans' all-blue page... http://www.infostyling.com/

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I am working on a new design for the GISMO (NYC area GIS user group) website and am experimenting with adding a blog. Please take a look: http://gismonyc.blogspot.com This blog is hosted on blogspot.com. It is rather featureless at this point, but I think as an example of what a blog would look like for a group like ours, it is a start. I plan to move it to MovableType when I set up a new

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My website is down. Brinkster launched a great new site with new pricing structure. Somehow my files got lost in the mix. Not just my little website but a great big one I was working on for AMNH. I had been having trouble with Brinkster for a while - there were ads on my supposedly ad-free site. Now there are no ads, but no files either. It'll be a pain to repost these files, so I'm thinking

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from today's Top Stories - AP "Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq " Rumsfeld was accompanied by Myers and several lawyers on a trip designed to reassure U.S. troops that the prisoner abuse scandal has not weakened public support for their mission and to get firsthand reports from the most senior commanders. Neither hid his feelings about the tough questioning he endured from members of

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The next GISMO meeting is tomorrow, May 11th from 12:00pm-2:30pm at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com. Anyone interested in geographic information systems software is welcome to attend. No need to RSVP. Lunch is provided by the

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Here's two introductions to ontologies: Ontologies Come of Age Smarter Content Publishing: Creating a Semantic Content Management System (VLombardi)

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PMerholz says: I've found Kevin Crowston's work on genres of web communications to be essential in how I'm thinking about IA: http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/index.php

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I just posted a bunch of upcoming meetings to the GISMO website. Additional details are in the GISMO calendar. Events through May: Thursday, April 29, 5:00pm: GGSA Spring Lecture Series Hunter College, North Building in room 1022, New York, NY "Lost Geographies and Failed Globalization: From Versailles to Iraq" Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Wed, May

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The new CMS Wiki has a definition of a Content Management System. http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=ContentManagementSystem. It also has a discussion of the confusing term portal. http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-editpage.php?page=Portal And something on Workflow. http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=WorkFlow CMS Review has references to all the great books on Content Managemant.

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Today, I went to a NYC City Council Public Hearing of the Committee on Technology in Government, on the role of the City's 59 Community Boards in the 311 system. 311 is the new number that New Yorkers dial to ask questions about New York City services, make complaints and to get information, such as library hours, bus and trash pickup schedules, etc. Community boards act as local advocates to

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Visio stencils- Henrik Olsen's web prototyping stencils and template uses: prototyping, wireframes http://www.guuui.com/issues/02_03_02.php - Michael Angeles's wireframe stencils uses: prototyping, wireframes http://studioid.com/pg/visio_wireframe_stencil.php - Jesse James Garrett's stencils uses: flow http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/ - Peter Van Dijk's stencils (four of them here) uses:

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Personas and RolesSome Persona URLS: http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters_personas.asp http://iawiki.net/PersonaDesign http://foruse.com/newsletter/foruse15.htm#3 Sometimes Personas is the right sentiment but not the right approach, because they assume you have quite distinguishably different user archetypes. In this case it may be better to adopt a role-based approach, whereby you

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All of the following resources came from a discussion list (not my compilation). Apologies to whomever compiled this listing - I've forgotten so I can't give credit.... :( Site Index examples: Good: http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/site_index.jsp http://www.w3.org/Help/siteindex http://www.montaguelab.com/Public/indexes.htm http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html http://

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http://www.aussi.org/indexer.htm http://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htm http://www.sun.com/siteindex/ http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/default.htm http://www.adobe.com/products/main.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-stores.html/104-3468701-819 5133 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/508510/104-3468701-8195133

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The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in Great Britain just released an in-depth study on the accessibility of 1000 websites, with recommendations to improve the W3C WAI guidelines on accessibility. Thanks to Jim on the SIGIA-L listserv for finding this. http://www.drc-gb.org/publicationsandreports/report.asp For a response from the WAI read on: http://www.w3.org/2004/04/wai-drc-statement.html

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I am planning a trip with the family to Lake George in August and getting sidetracked by dreams of Montreal, Quebec City, Montana, skiing. Why must we have to plan so far in advance? No availability. We are definitely available the week you want, except were fully booked on Tuesday night, but we can accommodate those other days! We don't take children under 12. Sorry, we're booked. Sigh. Back to

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I recently wrote in my blog welcome message about a book project on the use of mapping technology in 9/11 rescue & recovery efforts. I'm moving this off the welcome message because I am going to start to write it. There are a lot of great resources on the mapping efforts at Pier 92 in New York City available at the GISMO website: Yahoo! Groups : gismonyc Links Directions Magazine has a great

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We just got back from Costa Rica late Sunday night. We left New York on a snowy March 18th and were briefly delayed to de-ice the wings. Four hours later we were in San Jose, met our San Jose guide, who gave us a brief tour orientation while being driven to and dropped at the hotel. After an easy four and a half hour flight, we weren't too tired, but there wasn't much to do at the first hotel. We

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Here is a new initiative I am working on with the Municipal Art Society. The Community Information Technology Initiative at http://www.myciti.org/ is an online mapping program being used by five pilot New York City Community Boards to aid in community planning, development and emergency management. I am having a great time with this project! In fact, in honor of GIS Day, I had the pleasure of

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Program that takes XML tree data and displays them in a pretty tree diagram. It would be great if I could control what part of the tree it shows by collapsing/expanding nodes, allow me to color code the display of the lines, nodes & terminus labels to metadata coded for each node, etc. Is there code for taking XML data and importing to Flash? That would also be great. Would it be hard? Examples

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Fall seems to be a peak time for business networking and new projects. I am starting new projects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Municipal Art Society, and I still have time for one more. A few neat possibilities have come up, as well as a whole slew of networking opportunities. Do I have time for it all? I guess it's time to boot up the old timesheet program...there are

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I just launched a new website for the America Museum of Natural History's Ornithology Department. The site describes a field expedition to Mt. Tay Con Linh to study biodiversity in a remote, mountainous region in the north with links to research papers and a slideshow of bird specimens that were collected in the region. Please visit Mt. Tay Con Linh - Vietnam 2000 and let me know what you think!

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Walking the kids to school today, I realized what day it was and how much the weather resembles 9/11/2001. It was a bit warmer then, so that helps put things in perspective a bit. My sister in law called this morning at around 7am (our time) saying she just woke from a bad dream and asked us to be careful today. She is in California. 8:46 and 9:06 went by without incident, so we are resting

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It was just after 4pm. I was on the M104 coming back with my girls from the JCC Day Camp. Everything was normal on our ride back, but when we got off the bus at 88th & Broadway, we realized the streetlights were out. I thought it was just on the one intersection and told the girls to hold my hands as we crossed Broadway, since no one appeared to be directing traffic. As we crossed 89th Street,

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While trolling the Social Networks board at Ryze I discovered a couple of interesting links to articles on Knowledge Management and Social Networks which was the topic I was pursuing and a side link on Weblogs as Filing Cabinets, both posted on Dave Pollard's How to Save the World blog.

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(It's 100 degrees and I'm feeling nostalgic) Little League games Wyler's Italian Ices Big, white, puffy clouds Any song by Chicago Gazing up at the sky through the leaves of an apple tree Lake Michigan Kids' laughter and splashing sounds Chuck's pool & country music from the 50s Colorful, wet beach towels, draped over a fence The ice cream truck song The phosphorous smell of sparklers

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