Riny Heijdendael has given a short introduction on how to use mash-ups of different techniques to connect existing Wikis to Mapping tools like Google Earth. Riny Heijdendael explained during a meeting what he is working on right now: One of the major problems I encountered was that more and more the network faced the problem of finding the relevant information, both on a geographic as a thematic scale. Connecting Milieukontakt International supports a global network of environmental NGO's. Since 1.5

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

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It’s about information and search. That’s why I’ve always preferred to compare Twitter with Google. On Google I search for information and get a set of results based on which sites score most highly in their algorithm. On Twitter I search for information and get a set of results based on which links are most often read and forwarded by other users. Image by manfrys via Flickr People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook.

RJ: What’s your response to people who say that all this information that’s out there, all this knowledge that we’re producing is great, and there’s all this access that we didn’t have before. But we also risk information overload alongside, and we don’t— But the information overload people are the most narcissistic because information overload started in Alexandria, in the library You should definitely make time to read the entire two-part article. Clay covers a variety of topics such as literacy, media, generational shifts and the future of news/journalism.

When I was asked to facilitate a discussion on reflective learning and weblogs at the workshop on Informal learning and the use of social software in veterinary medicine I hesitated: while reflective learning is part of my practice, at the moment I’m far from the theories about it or from facilitating reflective learning in educational settings. Reflective learning : I googled for stuff to read on it to brush up my knowledge without getting to far into the theory and found this best practice paper useful – Learning journals and logs, reflective diaries [This post was in drafts for a while; posted on the actual date of the workshop, so the participants can find it.]

But the day has come, Google Reader has turned into a simple newsmastering service. Over two years ago I was whining ( point 5 in this post ) that Google Reader lacked an OPML file for each tag/folder, which it still does, but it has gone one better anyway, well kind of… Use case is if I import my OPML into a Google CSE , and then add/delete a feed from Google Reader, my Google CSE will not know about it, which is a pity because it means I can’t use Google Reader as It’s sometimes such a drag being an early adopter because you are ready for features years ahead of when regular users will ask for them…you just have to be patient.

Reading media blogger Jeff Jarvis ’s book, ‘ What Would Google Do? ‘  new ways of doing things, it’s just the the new ways Jeff describes often have more to do with p2p than Google.  Google is there, but more as an entity that captures the data of the new way rather than representing the new way itself. 8216;  is very interesting and full of great anecdotes, human-level stories and aspirational ideas for technology - but I can’t help feeling the book is a little miss-named; I would suggest that it would have been more accurate to call it ‘ What Would p2p Do? ‘.