Harold Jarche

I volunteer as Director of Education at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute (AWI), which is located just outside our town of Sackville: The AWI is unique among wildlife rescue programs in Atlantic Canada in using rehabilitation to identify and highlight key environmental health issues for public attention and response. Learning by doing is central to the [...]

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I’m sure that everyone who hasn’t been in an eggnog-induced coma has heard that Time’s person of the year is – You; or those people who control the information revolution: And we didn’t just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded [...]

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This year saw blogging enter the mainstream and I’ve noticed that I no longer have to explain it to most people. I changed platforms (from Drupal to WordPress), which has made comment spam management much easier. There is no doubt that e-mail spam is a major problem today and now comment & trackback spam have [...]

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Time to recharge my batteries, focus on our family and stop blogging for a while. Thanks to all the folks who came by here this year and especially those who left comments, as it’s the continuing conversations that keep me going. All the best for Christmas, Saturnalia, Kwanzaa or whatever you may be celebrating at [...]

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Once again, Will Thalheimer nails what is passed off as corporate research as actually the propagation of a myth (meme?), asking: Is it plagiarism if you steal a lie? The culprit in this case is Forrester Research. The previous culprit was NTL. Will is doing the field a great favour by holding us to high [...]

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Elgg is a social networking (like MySpace) and learning (not like Blackboard) platform that I use and have implemented for clients. It is free and open source, under the GNU Public License or GPL. Recently, Ben, the main programmer for Elgg, has been getting some comments about the lack of documentation for Elgg. He has [...]

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Dave Cormier has slapped me with a meme, kind of like a chain letter, to write 5 things that you may not know about me. Memes can be very powerful and some can actually be dangerous, and if you want to know more about memes and memetics, listen to Sue Blackmore’s presentation at Pop!Tech. This [...]

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I’ve been using Furl as a social bookmarking tool for a few years but the RSS feed has not worked since September 2006. I decided to try to transfer my Furl archive (+800) to del.icio.us. I used the export as Mozilla bookmarks function in Furl and then saved the page as an HTML file on [...]

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Markets are conversations and conversations create markets. What follows is a case study that shows how important conversations are in the marketplace and especially in our ubiquitously connected world. I have been using SmartDraw for several years and made my first post about this diagramming software in May 2004. I was approached by the company [...]

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Warning: Rant Ahead Windows does it again. This evening I rented a DVD from our local movie store. I decided to watch it on my PC, a Dell XPS M1210, which I recently purchased for almost $2K. I had already watched a movie on it and had used Dell’s CinePlayer, which worked well. On loading [...]

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