Ever been to a mixer?
How Ryze parties are like a cement mixer.
What is klogging?
Your expertise + weblogging and what it means to you.
What movies do you like?
A few that reached me, and messed with my heart, mind and guts.
Phil's Internet Footprints
Fulfill your stalker instincts.
Nanoscale bookmarks
Think small Legos. Smaller. Smallest.
What are you looking for in a
woman?
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Ever been to a mixer?
Ryze (I network therefore I am) throws a Friday night mixer.
Is this anything like a cement mixer?
You climb into a dark enclosed space
and just when you get comfortable,
someone adds water
and starts shaking things up.
After you're drenched and confused
you find you've been bumping into everything else in the mixer
and lots of it sticks to you
and,
while it is a pleasantly sensual and intimate sensation
if you like smooth wet clay against your skin,
it does get a little
confusing
and
awkward
and
giddy
and
things keep spinning
and
before you know it
you've been poured
and
the whole evening is a memory.
Meanwhile you just set up and let what stuck to you
shape up, wash off or harden,
leaving you in a condition both more and different than
before you chose to mix it up.
Ever heard of weblogging or blogging? (Of course you have) A klog
(sometimes K-log, short for knowledge log), is a blog and related tools
used for "knowledge management" in a work setting.
There are a few ideas that might interest you:
Nobody ever uses traditional, heavyweight km systems: too much effort,
too abstract, and too much of life must be mangled to fit into those
systems.
Klogging, on the other hand, is comfortable, narrative (so it includes
context), has a personal voice (for nuance), a safer audience (behind the
firewall), and usually includes links to other related information. The
links are useful to systems like Google for sorting out who knows what.
If you suspect that everyone in your bunch knows something, then
klogging is the most decentralized, cheap, fast way to get things going,
improve communication, and create a team memory.
A few sources for more info:
Some draft notes and articles on klogging:
http://dijest.editthispage.com/klogs/
A Klog Apart's klog department:
http://http://dijest.com/aka/categories/klogs/
The mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs
btw, klogging may also be a style of dance.
Hi, Rocahel.
Thanks for the kind words.
Favorite films? Among the thousands? Hard for me; I haven't been
very organized about keeping track of the thousands of flicks I've seen. I
need to spend time building up My Movies on
IMDb. Just saw Blue Vinyl and
was delighted by the narrative tone and structure. Few documentaries are
compelling enough to take you through something so complex and dark without
leaving you with an agitprop feel.
I enjoy the process of turning my mind over to the filmmaker. I
like film that surprises me by telling an old story in a new way or a new
story in an old way. If successful, they've messed with me, either my
feelings, my assumptions and biases, what I think I know, or my body.
Lasting change is probably the hallmark of an important film or a classic.
And they wind up book marking times in my life.
Kurosawa did this for me. Japantown cinema, English subtitles.
So did The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (my first film-inspired
nightmares).
Alien (left me weak kneed, afraid of what lurks in shadows for
weeks). 12 Angry Men (lessons in reaching consensus). The
Wizard of Oz (more than one way to look at things). The Manchurian
Candidate (before and better than memento). Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington (everyone can make a difference and propaganda can be
inspiring). Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland (4 hours of
surreality in a language I don't speak, and my introduction to the Pacific
Film Archive). Akira (manga!). Groundhog Day (I keep
watching it over and over and over...).
Hard Day's Night (it must be fun to be a Beatle). Umbrellas
of Cherbourg for the story, the colors, the music, and Catherine Deneuve.
Good luck with your film project,
Rocahel.
Hi, Preeta. As requested, some nano sites...
- Background
- News
- Organizations
-
Career
-
Jobs in nanotech - a directory of nanotechnology industry job boards and
employer job listings. (Thanks,
Brian.)
and join us at a Nanoschmooze near you.
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