shift and share

A new and rather surprising step forward in mass collaboration is taking place in New Zealand, where members of the public are being allowed to help craft new legislation through the use of a wiki. It will be very interesting to see the progress of the project as it evolves, especially as it is open [...]

A lot continues to be said about Web 2/3/4.0, and as always, it’s fascinating to see what the various conceptions, definitions and understandings of it seem to be. From a very technical perspective, Google’s Eric Schmidt recently gave an explanation of what he believes it to be, and predictably, he looks at it from the [...]

It’s very easy to get into a pattern of how things are done, and I’ve found that especially applies to graphic facilitation. It’s easy to get spoiled by our six-foot-tall whiteboards everywhere…what happens if you need to give a “scribing experience” in a boardroom?
While I’ve used butcher paper in the past, I’ve settled on a [...]

A quick tip – which Donna showed me – for making scribing “pop” in Photoshop; after you’ve cleaned the image, switch to the brush tool, enlarge your brush (300+ pixels) and change your foreground color to black.

Change the “mode” to “Overlay”, set the opacity to around 35%, and paint over everything…zammo! All of the colors [...]

The English version of Wikipedia reached it’s two-millionth article today. Compare that to the latest print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which contains about 65,000 articles.
Interestingly, when I Googled Encyclopedia Britannica to see how many entries it had, the first thing that came up was – you guessed it – the Wikipedia entry about…the Encyclopedia [...]