Pat’s Point of View

Someone sent me an email with a photo of some “sidewalk painting” which was far out. So I had a look around for some more - there are some fantastic examples.

For something a bit more serious (and with fairly strong religious overtones) check out the work of world renowned street painter Kurt Wenner.

It’d be a shame to have to walk on these sidewalks, or worse still, watch these works of art wash away in the rain.

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I’ve just launched a new website to promote the Intranet Review Toolkit written by my colleague at Step Two, James Robertson.

www.intranetreviewtoolkit.org

It’s not that pretty but does the job.

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Was just reading a recent article in New Scientist, an extract from Daniel Wilson’s “How to survive a robot uprising”. Here’s his advice for spotting a would-be human impersonator:

Humans unconsciously acquire a vast amount of social knowledge, such as how to stand in line, the concept of personal space and why men should wear pants to work. If the guy standing on your porch doesn’t follow these rules, don’t let him inside - whether he’s a robot or not.

Good advice :)

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Have a Guinness on me. OK not on me, I’m not paying - buy your own beer.

This means it’s been more than a year since I setup this blog; St. Patrick’s Day 2005 was one of my first posts. What’s changed? Well I’m on the other side of the planet, it’s quite hot and sunny, and there’s no customised Google logo today.

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I was watching a documentary on SBS the other night (no, not one of those ones) about “Yamaksai”, the group of French guys who brought Parkour to the world’s attention.

Continue reading ‘Not for the clumsy’

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This is a little overdue, but I’m pleased to officially announce Jenn and I have bought a new place to live!
Continue reading ‘Our new home’

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When you manage to empty your inbox! Mark Hurst has tells us how to achieve this elation, using the Good Experience todo list (Gootodo). How’s a todo list relate to an empty inbox?

Continue reading ‘You know the feeling…’

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I’ve just published a short paper entitled Introduction to Accessibility, intended as a practical entry point for Intranet managers and the like. This will soon be followed by a more in-depth paper on accessibility techniques.

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Yesterday I attended Lou Rosenfeld’s “Enterprise IA” workshop. I found the day quite enjoyable, bumped into a few people I knew in past lives and even learnt a thing or two.

Lou is quite a good speaker, engaging the audience well and frequently, with much discussion at a level deeper than most seminars. Some of the more interesting topics covered include search/browse with faceted taxonomies, alternatives to navigation (site maps/TOC/indicies/”guides”), and folksonomies/wiki/blogs in the enterprise.

It was excellent to hear Lou’s response to people’s comments and questions, particularly in cases where the person making the comment had real experience in the application of concepts, as opposed to inexperienced people asking entry level questions.

Afterwards the regular IA Peers evening merged with left-over seminar attendees, making for a rather large gathering of IAs, KMs and librarians. I’ll endeavour to attend these more often.

All in all, a good day’s learning.

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