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The Gurteen Knowledge Website is a fascinating collection of books, articles, pointers, people, documents, blogs, and more on the topics of knowledge management, learning, creativity, innovation & personal development. David Gurteen has woven everything together to create a labyrinth I could wander around in for hours.
There's a newsletter, too. Handy tips from the April 6 edition:
- ************* RAY OZZIE ON COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY *************
Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and founder of Groove Networks is always a guy whose thoughts and ideas are worth keeping in touch with ...
White paper from Ray and Peter O'Kelly on collaborative technology http://www.groove.net/contact/b2f-download/
Voice interview with Ray by Robin Good
http://www.kolabora.com/news/2004/03/17/robin_good_interviews_ray_ozzie.htm
Ray's weblog
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/
Ray Ozzie:
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000358FA?open&r=3&p=0
These are headed straight into my private links page:
- ********************** ONLINE DICTIONARIES **********************
I usually use the online Meriam-Webster dictionary when looking-up words on the web but increasingly I use Hyper Dictionary. I prefer the results and get a set of Thesaurus results as well without having to conduct a separate search.
http://www.hyperdictionary.com
Compare this:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=knowledge
with this:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=knowledge
which do you prefer?
Another fascinating dictionary is Urban Dictionary which is a slang dictionary where you can actually submit your own words and vote on words submitted by others:
http://www.urbandictionary.com
but I'll warn you now if you are easily offended don't look up 'knowledge' ... I thought I had come across most definitions but not this one - as they say in a footnote "Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences" :-)
A week ago today I was making final preparations for a trip to Kingston, Ontario, for a conference. Forwarding the phone to my cell was going to be one of the final steps. Five minutes before we were due to leave the house, I lifted the handset and heard nothing. No dial tone. Dead air. Zilch.
I scrambled around on the floor under my desk wiggling the connections to our four incoming phone lines. I tried other equipment. Nothing worked. Uta called Pacific Bell. They said they could come out to check on Friday morning, a mere three days away.
On Thursday, the dial tone magically appeared. Uta called. What had happened? PacBell said a line had been cut. Where? Telling that would involving violating somebody's privacy rights. When was service restored? They had no idea.
She said she'd like to cancel the Friday service appointment. Pacific Bell said there was no appointment to cancel. She said she'd talked with someone on Tuesday and set an appointment. Pacific Bell said she did not have an appointment. Never did.
Will wonders never cease?
I told you so.
What can I say, but "duh"?
Posted by Jay Cross at May 11, 2004 11:05 PM | TrackBack
