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Wiki-love

Feb 15, 2005 |

...but the joy of Wiki is that I got to fix the misleading instruction myself, right away.

Down for maintenance

Feb 15, 2005 |

Kudos to the team at Wordpress for their foolproof scheme for backing up Wordpress databases before upgrading. Did I say foolproof? Let me be the fool to take that back. If you're missing all the juicy e-engagement news that's usually here -- not to mention the usual...

Yak shaving etymology

Jan 24, 2005 |

I've finally done something to earn true geek credentials. No, not writing my own applescript (not that hard, actually). Not installing and terminating my own in-wall ethernet network (with brilliant foresight, just 6 months before wireless went consumer-grade). Not...

Conference on Online Deliberation: Stanford, May 2005

Jan 23, 2005 |

The 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice will be held May 20-2005 at Stanford University. (Full disclosure: I'm on the organizing committee). The call for proposals asks for abstracts by March 15. A peek at some of the details: We...

Technological leapfrogging

Jan 17, 2005 |

I have a story in today's Toronto Star on Leapfrogging the Technology Gap. The story looks at communities or even whole countries in the developing world that are using information and communication technologies to leapfrog directly from being an agricultural to an...

From diatribe to dialogue

Jan 14, 2005 |

It's been an exciting 48 hours here on alexandrasamuel.com. It's been swell hearing from all the folks who were shocked, outraged or otherwise engaged by my digressions (in November, and this week) on the subject of Condoleezza Rice's political science career, but I...

The technologies of citizenship

Jan 13, 2005 |

I had lunch today with Sanjay Khanna, a fellow Vancouverite who shares my interest in the social and political impact of information technology. We had a mind-blowing conversation that stimulated a whole bunch of new ideas about the relationship between technology and...

Blogging initiation rites

Jan 13, 2005 |

I guess I'm now a real blogger: I've had my first and second thrashings at the hands of fellow bloggers. My offending entry suggested that Condoleezza Rice be excommunicated from the (admittedly permeable) bounds of political science on the grounds of gross...

Impasse as opportunity: upcoming Vancouver workshop

Jan 11, 2005 |

The Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver is hosting a February workshop on "Impasse as Opportunity". The workshop addresses: Why are some conflicts seemingly impervious to resolution? When conflicts get stuck in repeating, negative patterns, what can be done?...

Discount dialogue

Jan 9, 2005 |

It's amazing what you can get online these days. Look what popped up when I googled "dialogue": I always heard talk is cheap.