Clarity’s blog

blogging from the hospital having WASP ALLERGY treatment today. have to wait 15 minutes between shots so I am trying out WAPBLOGGER - blogging from your wap phone.little bit strange …

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Quite a few new posts today at AwakeHeart.Net. Been busy this morning!!

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This is bad - a guy is on trial for pointing out that their wireless network is not secure. So what, that IS going to make their network more secure?

The Register

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Apparently a legislation is being proposed in USA that would allow copyright holders to legally hack into your computer and destroy files that you’ve downloaded. I mean, yeah right…

DaveNet : Hollywood wants the right to hack your computer

(via Ryan Green’s Radio Weblog)

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A fictional account of Googleish Semantic Web. Some very interesting thoughts here on using RDF files to build relationship into the Web. Definitely worth a look.

Ftrain.com: August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

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Jon Udell continues his discussion about DRM and Palladium. As always his comments are insightful.

Jon Udell: Mud Wrestling with Teenagers

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Having a headache today, so not much posting. Looking from a practice perspective, clarifying believed thoughts: Life should be without pain. Pain means you’ve done something wrong.

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something to keep tracking -
kTools Web Suite.

What is ktools?
»A web-based toolkit designed to ease the scripting needs of news sites, blog systems with multiple users, and virtual hosts.«

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I really like what I’m reading on the above mentioned blog.Chapter 8

Of course, individual blogs get really interesting when they’re implemented throughout the corporate hierarchy. Imagine the internal individual blog of a charismatic CEO. Instead of (or in addition to) those Friday afternoon pep talks and the monthly e-mailing of the vision statement, what if the CEO was constantly communicating with the organization through her weblog? The informal tone and personal nature would move beyond the image of CEO as corporate figurehead, and reveal CEO as human being. The same is true for vice presidents and managersâ€â€?they’re all people working together, and a personal blog allows them to share their common humanity with one another as it pertains to the workplace. Doing so creates a workplace that is more humane.

As a manager, individual weblogs allow you to get to know the people you work with on another level, and allow you to do so at a convenient time. Imagine a hypothetical individual weblog for an administrative assistant named Dan. Dan works in a small department with 15 other people; because he’s the only assistant, he’s responsible for a variety of tasks. In a given day, Dan may post three or four entries to his blog: a picture of his grandson’s birthday party that he’s just received; a post announcing that an espresso machine has been ordered for the department, including a link to the espresso machine’s site where others may find details about the new machine; a brief write-up about an Excel spreadsheet that he’s created for people to use to order office supplies; and a review of a book he’s just read that really influenced his thinking.

Anyone from my old company listening?

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Interesting. I really want to push this idea in the next company I work for…

The quote is from the following blog post about Blogs in business:
Chapter 8

A Story about Stuff
Pyra had an internal weblog called Stuff. It started simply enough when the company was less than two months old, shortly after my partner, Evan Williams, and I had set up our office in my living room. At the time, the weblog format was just gaining momentum (early 1999), and we were struggling with an effective way to communicate with each other. We sat less than ten feet apart, but we needed a solution that wouldn’t be disruptive. We wanted to be able to share information without interrupting each other’s work, so we needed something asynchronous (that is, not at the same time; I could write up a suggestion for the business plan, or point Ev to a new design for the Web site, and he could review it at the best moment for him). We also needed something searchable so we could find these important chunks of information later on, and, most importantly, we wanted something that would be easy to read and remember. E-mails disappear from my view after I’ve filed them in a folder, or they become buried in my inbox, and when I no longer see them, I forget about the content they contained. We knew that talking to each other immediately was disruptive, and we feared a mailing list wouldn’t be much of an improvement on plain old e-mail for only two people. We decided to do a simple weblog.

Weblog posts were often notes to ourselves, reminders of business practices (”Do at least one marketing task every day”), information and tips related to programming, and potential taglines for our new company. But very quickly it also became a place where we shared quotes and developed a sort of company philosophy. (Posts appeared reminding us to “Pamper the users,” and “Keep it simple.”) Stuff became a place where we could write and share things we wouldn’t say directly to each other, a place for bits of information and snippets of thoughts that weren’t important enough to warrant an e-mail. As we recorded the growth of our company in Stuff (literally, posting how many sign-ups we had, who was creating accounts, and so on) we unintentionally created a diary of our start-up.

Looking back on its content today, you can see the growth of Pyra from two people to three, then four, and see the change in the company as new people joined the team. I often think of Stuff as the soul of the company; it was the site that every one of us checked all day long. It was a visual representation of the team and of a collective stronger than each individual who made it up. I never thought I’d feel such an emotional connection to a Web page, but I did, and I still doâ€â€?because I exposed my deepest feelings there, openly shared my visions, dreams, and hopes for the company, along with my frustrations and concerns. Stuff is a testament to all that.

When new people joined our company, one of the first things folks did was read back through Stuffâ€â€?all the way to the beginning. In a few hours they had a better sense of what Pyra was about than any mission statement could have hoped to communicate. We didn’t need to tell anyone what our corporate values were; the spirit of the company was revealed through the posts available everyday in Stuff.

Stuff was team building, corporate identity, knowledge management, joke mailing list, philosophy student, therapist, and traditional weblog with links to news articlesâ€â€?all in one. Open, refreshing, and honest, it was the place to share and communicate. Sometimes we’d publish a good Stuff post to our company weblog at www.pyra.com as well. The code we wrote to power Stuff and publish select posts to a different site is still in existence today, but you know it by another name - Blogger.
Meg Hourihan

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CNN.com - Hunt for bin Laden goes online - July 23, 2002

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Since I finally own a WAP phone, this is beginning to look interesting:LearnMobile.net - MMIT versus SDE

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hmm, i think i just like the girl… check it out if you’re bored - i quite like the way she designs her pages.

: : m e t a z a n n a h : : r e m i x : : (version 2.0)

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Stumbled upon this blog tonite Chick.Interrupted.Com

The following quote is intriguing:
One thing I’ve been saying all week is, “Is there something on my face, or am I just ridiculously good-looking?”

And I was obsessing that I don’t write anything interesting on my blog…

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Just realized that I’ve never really explained why “Clarity’s blog”. It’s quite simple - my Buddhist name is Clarity of the Heart, given to me by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. I’ve mostly felt like I should be called “Confusion of the Heart”, yet Clarity it is… I guess it’s going to take my whole life figuring out how to live this name…

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