http://www.jackiedanicki.com Letting go of outcomes Sat, 17 May 2008 00:04:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...thanks to some guy in Ireland, anyone heard of him? [insert smiley here] I'll talk more about this on Monday, but for now I will say that I could not be happier with where I am. http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/cats-out-of-the-bag I'll explain later how I helped to make this happen, but let's just say...life is strange. http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/michael-moore-live-from-cannes-thanks-in-part-to-me Great stuff from Jeff Nolan. A taste: While the efforts to define semantic web technologies are theoretically proscribed in an open standards process it has the imagery of a politburo directing the proletariat. It may well be that these core technologies reside on a level of the geek stratosphere that is ... http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/memo-to-the-semantic-web #berkman10 jimmy wales: if we designed restaurants the way we design digital social spaces, we wouldn't give knives to steak diners -@jobsworth (aka BT Global Services CIO JP Rangaswami), reporting what @jwales - aka Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - had to say on Wikipedia, Civility, and Deliberative Democracy at the Berkman ... http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/tweet-of-the-day-8 @loiclemeur lots of video comments on that link; faces obscured. no idea which one you meant, no way to skim them, not worth my time. fail. -@kevinmarks (aka Kevin Marks) in response to Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur's enthusiasm for video comments on blogs (NOTE: In general, I am interested in further ... http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/tweet-of-the-day-7 I'm thinking a whole bunch of cyclists got together and were all, these outfits just aren't there yet. How can we make them more ridiculous? -@Dooce, aka Heather Armstrong, who was very charming and had great hair on Nightline last night http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/tweet-of-the-day-6 [S]crew cleantech short-term. Give me a battery for my laptop and mobile phone which doesn't need to be charged every day. Figure that problem out first before you even think of considering the Tesla Roadster ready for mass consumption. The same goes for any other new innovation regarding cleantech... Don't get ... http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/feeling-green Drew's choice for bread when shopping: "that looks sort of cute" -@BlakeFox (yes, Cincinnati's own Blake Fox!) on grocery shopping with his boyfriend @dreworama, who is really quite the aesthete and a man after my own heart. Why not buy bread based on cuteness? http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/tweet-of-the-day-5 This is great, concise advice: Just say something you mean, and enjoy the short thoughts, inspirations and mundane details of the people you decide to follow- searching for bloggers and writers you enjoy reading in a bigger format is the way to start. Follow people saying real stuff, not the ... http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/twitter-for-beginners If you treat work and life as mutually exclusive things, then you should not be surprised to have a work-life balance problem. -JP Rangaswami says all that and more worth reading in a cracking post. http://www.jackiedanicki.com/http:/www.jackiedanicki.com/worklife-balance-quote-of-the-day