All Things Cahill

(I wrote the text below, then came across (another) great Mike Wesch video that I think more captures the essence of what I’m trying to say…probably better than my own words.) Information R/Evolution Last week I mentioned in two separate posts that the single biggest complaint for Intranets is “I can’t find what I need.” Obviously that points to a need for a strong search function, but when we dig a little deeper, there’s a much better solution: taxonomy. You…

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I’ve been hearing for some time that “the Webmaster is dead.” If that’s the case, I wonder what will become of my webmistress? 😉 The truth is that the web over the years had gone in two divergent directions: specialization or home hobbiest. While the corporations have become the province of ui designers, database administrators, back end developers, analytics mavens, search engine optimizers and search marketers, to name only a few of the disiplines, for some reason many small businesses…

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Okay, I’ll admit it – I tend to be a little obsessive if I find a television show I like. Which is fine this year, as we may be witnessing the worst crop of new shows ever, and it doesn’t matter anyways because the screenwriters will soon go on strike and we’ll be doomed to even more “unscripted” reality pablum. So with the hours I’ve been working, I thought over the weekend I might as well see if there was…

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JB Menides suggested I give these guys a listen.  They’re playing the Elevens in Northampton tonight and Harpers Ferry in Boston on the 31st for a Halloween Party.  Think Marley meets Dogg… Note: at 3:32 the video switches to a live show, and the sound gets kind of rough…be careful. Hopefully some better video will show up for us to share (hint: Halloween shows make great video). Dig deeper: MySpace Page Fuzz Page Jambase Page

Interesting video…reinforcing the differences in the way (young) people get their information. The logical extension of “people don’t read anymore.” Of course the narrator sounds like the same person that does the “white zone is for loading and unloading only” at Heathrow…

Mukund Mohan commented yesterday on my post about Intranets: Several of my peers are reporting “giving up” on putting stuff on the “intranet” and resorting to email stuff around. They obviously are not yet on the social network and wiki camp but Intranets are losing their effectiveness is what I concluded. He’s really hit the target square – social networking and wikis for Intranets. Now before you all start thinking I’ve gone off the deep end, drank the Kool-aid, or…

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Got a great pointer from David Churbuck to a post from Jim Forbes on his evacuation due to the San Diego fires… First, our thoughts and prayers to Jim and everyone afflicted by these fires. Jim, in his usual style, hits on one of the big problems with media today. They’ve lost track of what matters on the local level. Even worse, local is the only spot most media is relevant. With the one exception of the San Diego AM…

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Tony Ciampa over at Philip Ciampa Salon and Day Spa (a Vario Customer) was the subject of a post by Amy Derjue at the Boston Daily blog at Boston Magazine last week. Basically, forget about the pink hats, real Red Sox fans are going for red hair! Tony Ciampa greets me with a plastic bag full of long red hair that resembles the Manic Panic samples I loved in my high school days. Now, I’m no Jessica Simpson, so I…

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Once upon a time, there were no turkeys in Massachusetts…at least the feathered version. That has all changed over the past 20 or so years, in one of the unsung wildlife management success stories of of our lifetimes. From the Boston Globe: “We were turkey-less for many years,” said Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Important Birds Area Program. “And then we decided it would be quite nice to get them back on the landscape.” Efforts to revitalize…

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Chris Murray and I had lunch yesterday and Intranets were on the menu, big time… He posts this morning(by the way, new url alert – he’s changed the location of his blog, so update your reader): But a common theme in business seems to be “our Intranet sucks” or “I can’t find anything in our system” or ” that’s your stuff, I need to find my stuff.” Too many businesses see their information systems and processes as a cost center…

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