Remote team working

Great sxsw presentation by W. Cruce Saunders and Linda Norman from Ariesnet on efficient remote working and virtual teaming.
Listen to the podcast here.
(via the IAInstitute mailing list)
This is particularly relevant for a location like Noosa offering a fantastic outdoor lifestyle and a good family friendly community – with great potential for establishing a knowledge-based and [...]

Oh! Google to get involved in sustainable energy production!

Via ‘O’Reilly Radar’:
Google is going to invest tens of millions in renewable energy. The aim of yesterday’s announced RE<C is to produce a Gigawatt of renewable energy cheaper than coal.
All systems go!
A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).

Creative Class – Noosa

Mark Stockwell, Sarah, Bob Abott and Richard Florida
‘Knowledge and Creativity’ was held at the J., Noosa Junction, on 23/Nov/2007
I attended out of curiosity to check out what the ‘Noosa Creative Alliance’ is all about. After all:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing [...]

IA Musings: When do you loose the breadcrumb trail?

The breadcrumb metaphor is misleading – I agree with Chris Fahey who calls it ‘crummy’ on a related SIGIA-L thread.
Breadcrumbs don’t follow a user’s movements. A breadcrumb navigation is really more like a GPS, indicating where you are in relation to the nearest info landmarks. On retail sites this would be most likely a department [...]

WordPress & flickrSLiDR

Trying to figure out how to embed a flickr slideshow of some work samples into my wordpress pages. Does flickrSLiDR not work with wordpress hosted sites? And if not can I keep my template and changes if I host myself? So many questions – as usual.