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, [...]
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 [...]
ecto update: Kudos to the ecto crew for getting me a solution to my configuration problem within 4 hours of simply mentioning it here. WordPress’ built-in rich text editor… not so good in Safari. Doesn’t run. (To be fair, I haven’t used a JavaScript based rich text editor that works well in Safari.) But hey… [...]