Work and the Web are Converging
By Jay Cross
Trends often emerge in California before jumping to the East Coast and spreading to the rest of the United States. Surfing, Jacuzzis, skateboarding, designer pizza, varietal wines, organic produce, and the Whole Earth Catalog are a few examples. Now add to that list blogs, mash-ups, and innovation on the web.
Over lunch at an Indian restaurant in Berkeley last week, a geek friend told me about his recent two-week trip to New York. They just dont get it, he said. For most of us in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Internet is as basic as bread. Conversations brim with chatter about Mash-Ups, social software, Googles next move, great hacks, and Microsofts latest snafu. But in New York, my friend felt as though he might as well have been speaking in Sumerian. Few people knew what he was talking about. The trend has yet to hit in full force.
Read the rest of the article at Learning Circuits.
Editing this entry was problematic. I would insert paragraph spacing; it would disappear in the saved version. WTF? I looked at the HTML and found the tell-tale signs of Microsoft Word mark-up. Lots of extra tags and crap with Mso…. You’d think Microsoft would have put a pure HTML export into the world’s most-used word processor.
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