Poking around the intersection of KM and Social Media
Ever run across a website that made you cringe? Maybe it was the flaming logo, the animated “new” buttons or the painful site navigation. Don’t get mad; get destructive with this cool little site called NetDisaster that came across my desk courtesy of Mark Hurst’s Good Experience newsletter. NetDisaster doesn’t actually damage the site that […]
I had a perfect day yesterday, going down to Huntington Beach with Lynn and the dogs. We rode our bikes, played on “Dog Beach” and generally wore ourselves out in the fresh air and warm sun (see pics on Flickr). We capped the day with dinner and movie (Atonement, which I do not recommend). Today […]
I did some housekeeping here at www.jeffhester.net today, cleaning up some problems caused by legacy files being mixed in with the latest WordPress 2.3.2 stuff. In the process, I made a number of changes. One change that I particularly like is the inclusion of ContentRobot’s very cool iWPhone plug-in (see the screenshot for an example […]
I’ve got a lot of little projects cooking right now, and today is my day to play catch-up. Before I give you a rundown of today’s schedule and the varied projects I’m juggling, let me give you a peek at my weekend. Yesterday I took the day off — not such a bad idea considering […]
UPDATE #2, 6:31PM PST – The site is pretty much put back together. I’ve updated the theme, reinstalled, activated and configured most of the plug-ins and widgets. I still need to create a rule in my .htaccess file to handle 301 redirects from the old Moveable Type static pages (which no longer exist), and a […]
Google Docs is making it really easy to share work and collaborate online, and they’ve just announced a new feature that seems like a no-brainer: embeddable presentations. You’ve been able to create or upload Powerpoint presentations to Google Docs for some time now, but embedding in a page (or a blog entry) makes so much […]
I was reading an interesting story about how Netflix (one of my favorite services) is going to start downloading rentals directly to set-top devices hooked to your TV. Great idea, but what really caught my eye was the quote from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and founder: “It (the set-top device) is going to be very slick […]