Quoted: There is a fascinating discussion in the comments on Paul Beard's blog about capabilities for iTunes. The post was pointed to by the TUAW blog because Paul provides some detailed instructions on how to move an iTunes library. Something I have experienced much pain with after upgrading to a new Mac. The challenge with all this is to retain the play count

Quoted: On Friday August 1st it appears that a group of Twitter advocates inexplicably had their Twitter accounts deleted. My friend, PFAnderson, was one of those stricken by this act. PFA, you were not alone. On the same day the anti-spam bots at Google took a dislike to this blog and locked it. Gee, what did I do wrong? One of the reasons given was that I

Quoted: The definition of Web 2.0 has always been the subject of debate. Part of this could well be because there is no short and sweet definition. Tim O'Reilly is recognized at the leading light in this area but I have trouble remembering all the aspects of even the compact definition. Then I think back to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in early 2007. The

Quoted: Jim Meyer spoke about his personal journey that started while working at Dreamworks. The basic question of the session was "How do you be exceptional?" Jim Meyer and his leap of faith at barcampRDUThe first step on the road to excellence is to take personal responsibility. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" (Stephen R. Covey) has a jewel of

Quoted: Nathan Gilliatt gave an interesting talk on RSS tricks. The first example was using feed informer to consolidate feeds. AideRSS filters RSS feeds based on popularity based on comments, posts to del.icio.us etc. Feedblitz provides RSS to email integration Dapper.net is another site that lets you manipulate RSS feeds. But how can you do this inside the

Quoted: Enterprise 2.0 - What is happening inside the firewall? An excellent session. "In the Flow and above the Flow" You need an influential sponsor. Tips: Share with the tools rather than through emails We need enterprise search You don't have to promote the social koolaid - just make the features available Social capital is important in building trust

Quoted: I am writing and posting this from the Carolinian traveling down through Virginia to BarCampRDU in Raleigh, North Carolina. Oh, the wonders of modern technology. In my last blog I weaved together some of the threads from Vendor Relationship Management and Health 2.0. This has been very much on my mind as preparations for HealthCampDc and HealthCampNy

Quoted: This coming weekend is the third BarCampRDU, which is being held at the Red Hat Campus in Raleigh. I am traveling down to the event to join 250 others in discussions revolving around Open Source. So far the proposed sessions include Data Portability, The Semantic Web, Distributed Agile, Rails/Groovy and other developer focused topics. The growing list

Quoted: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April there was obvious and intense interest in the implications for the Health Care industry as a result of developments in Social Networking, Open Standards and Web 2.0 technologies. This prompted me to kick off a series of BarCamp style conferences. The inaugural event was HealthCampMd that was held in June