This may feel like a blast from the past now, but let’s flash back briefly to Burke’s Knowledge Web (KWeb). Looking at Burke’s KWeb, I love the idea of tracing networks of thinkers, inventors, scientists, political figures, and key innovations to investigate the history of technology. Because it provides the opportunity to study innovations from [...]
Last spring the music baton meme raged through the web development blog community like a campfire through the Southern California brush. Looking through it, I’m curious whether the meme would stand up without the “I tag/pass to” part of it, so here’s my thinking on memes, an experiment, and my version of the meme. On [...]
Reviewing my posts thus far I find I’m running afoul favorite pair of writing difficulties: It’s too long, son! What do you need all those words for anyway? This weekend’s Buffy entry really drove the problem home. That is, the fifty times I’ve looked over my little 2 page essay and realized that it boils [...]
Yahoo done a wonderful thing! I stumbled into the design patterns piece of it on del.icio.us Monday, but during my periodic look at mezzoblue, the details became more clear. Not only has Yahoo made available to the public a set of design patterns, but a UI library and other tools. Rather than duplicating details here, [...]
I came late to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer party. I watched a little of season 4 when my girlfriend at the time was rooming with a Buffy fan, then got back into it again in reruns just in time for the end of the series, ((The real fun of those later seasons of Buffy [...]
As my brother continues the visual redesign of our family site (primarily a web forum and gallery), he’s now facing down typographic issues. What typeface will best fit our family and how we use our site? What’s the prevailing family aesthetic, and does it work toward or against legibility or clear typographic hierarchy? It’s been [...]
Tools for the task As a means of facilitating interdisciplinary thinking and to help enfranchize informal learners, Burke presented a knowledge map project he’s been working on called the Knowledge Web. Through this tool and others like it, Burke hopes we will foster a more relational approach to learning and learn to think more innovatively. [...]
Barriers to innovation Our institutions Burke also made reference to institutions frustrating innovation because they are based on the problems, solutions, and knowledge of the past, and are continually looking backward, hoping to continue to innovate based on what straight lines of discovery they can extend from that past knowledge. The problem with this otherwise [...]
James Burke recently presented at BYU, where I earned my undergrad degree, and thanks to my brother catching it, I was able to see a rebroadcast this past week. The presentation impressed me to where I feel compelled to share at least some of the ideas covered over a set of upcoming posts, followed by [...]