Putting Your Toys Away

You know that book on how everything important is learned in Kindergarten?  Along that same line, before I got into Kindergarten, my mother taught me to that if I put my toys away, I will be able to find them again later.  I am sure there was a lot of crying and whining involved, but like most people I eventually got the point.

Fast forward to the adult world.  How many times have you heard these questions:

• Where is the latest spreadsheet?
• Does this document have the latest changes in it?
• Are your changes in this document?
• Can you send the copy of the file that contains all the latest updates?

This situation is caused by the worst scourge of our time: the addiction to email. 

Page First, Then E-Mail, Please

I am currently working with a number of local community groups; my role is typically to get people using Web2.0 technologies to make us more efficient.  This is surprisingly difficult.

One group I an involved in recently put on a en event.  The event was proposed a couple months ago through an email message.  There was a certain amount of discussion exchanged by email,

How Not to use OpenID

See my previous post on Web 2.1: How OpenID will rescue Web 2.0 where I wax lyrical on how great it will be when I can have a single ID and use it everywhere. Well, I still think it is a good idea, and I still think it is the right approach, but I am considerably more disappointed about the level of support.

Web 2.1: How OpenID will rescue Web 2.0

I am a self acknowledged “Site Registration Hater” (SRH). I hate registering at web sites. The whole concept behind Web 2.0 is collaboration: the content comes from individual contributors and we build the web together. But every single place where you want to make a contribution, you have to register as a “user” of that site.