Doris Kearns Goodwin opened the EDUCAUSE general meeting this morning, recounting her years as an intern in the Johnson White House and talking about Abraham Lincoln. She received a standing ovation at the end of her talk – the first that I have ever seen at EDUCAUSE. Her talk was full of great stories from … Continue reading
Chris Holsman wrote an article on I.T. Leadership traits for our internal newsletter. One part struck me as a lesson that has been hard for me to learn… A third leadership trait I’ve cultivated is to fish where the fish are, not where they aren’t. This seems obvious but I find it astonishing how many … Continue reading
I stumbled on this at Twitter: http://twitter.com/etech Wonder how that worked? Sounds like you could enter comments on the eTech conference in Twitter and they would aggregate them. Might be an interesting way to gather up quick notes from conferences.
Lola and I went for a long walk down by New Glarus, WI on the Sugar River Trail. I took some pictures and made two into desktops. Note: The originals are really big. They are scaled for my 24″ monitor.
Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com) has an article they are running called Discover the .EDU Underground Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Interesting list of finds about Art, Science, Space, Humanities, Photography, History and everything. Interesting that learning about the web … Continue reading
We went to Dogtoberfest at Capital Brewery today. This was a benefit for Dane County Humane Society. It was pretty fun. There was beer, live music, dog costumes and games. Lola had a pretty good time though it was hot and humid – surprisingly so for October. Technorati Tags: Jim Phelps, Dogs
Amazon launched a new MP3 purchase/download store. No DRM. Yea! Oddly, or predictably I guess, the number 1 and number 4 (huh?) single at the Amazon store is 1234 by Feist. This is the song on the new iPod Nano ad.
