Monthly Archives: May 2006

Learning from Nature

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Photos taken yesterday on my neighbour’s lawn and pond. Six adults, 15 goslings in three families. Lots more at my flickr. This is the cure for sadness. I sat on the edge of the lawn for nearly an hour taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 3 Comments

The Shangri-La Diet

Posted on May 10, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Cartoon by Tom Cheney in The New Yorker. Buy his cartoons here. Before you wonder why a weblog about the environment and business would be reviewing a diet book (Seth Roberts’ The Shangri-La Diet), here’s what piqued my interest: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 17 Comments

Making Web 2.0 Work: Embracing Complexity

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Dave Pollard

We’ve come a long way. Web 1.0, no small miracle itself, was largely about getting access to, and mobilizing, information on a scale unprecedented in history. Web 2.0 has been about what Tim O’Reilly calls creating “an architecture of participation”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 4 Comments

The Politics of Suicide

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Dave Pollard

From Tajikistan Travels: “Sharifmo explains that she, her mother and her son, Mustapha – now aged 2, live in one room in her brother’s house (her husband is away indefinitely working in Russia  but they are not wanted there. Her … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 14 Comments

Examining My Prejudices

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Dave Pollard

When I recently republished my How to Save the World Reading List, several readers commented on how few (four out of eighty, to be precise, including Janine Benyus, pictured at right) women authors were represented. SBPoet asked “what does this … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 15 Comments

Links for the Week – May 6/06

Posted on May 6, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Global Politics & Economics: A Real Solution to Terrorism: For a cost of what Bush is spending every hour in Iraq, we could buy and distribute enough anti-insect bed nets to struggling nations to protect 40 million vulnerable children and … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 1 Comment

Seeking Advice on a ‘Plan B’ for Backup and Migration of this Blog

Posted on May 5, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Earlier this week another of the most popular Salon bloggers, political satirist World O’ Crap, bailed out and moved to a new blog host. The Salon community is trying to hang together, using a Blogger blog, until we find out … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 12 Comments

What Our Dysfunctional and Evolving ‘Information Behaviours’ and Information Skills Mean for Our Future

Posted on May 4, 2006 by Dave Pollard

On the KM speaker/unconference circuit, I am often asked to talk about the dysfunctional ‘information behaviours’ that impede learning and knowledge sharing. The list of these behaviours, many of them suggested by you readers, now stands at 25: Dysfunctional Behaviours … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 2 Comments

The Place You Love is Gone

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Dave Pollard

“We are a generation weighed down by a sadness we don’t know we feel,” writes Melissa Holbrook Pierson in The Place You Love is Gone, the latest book to lament the loss of the importance of place in our lives. … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 5 Comments

How to Unconference

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Over the past dozen years, I’ve presented at about a hundred different conferences. I’ve turned down many more opportunities, and unless it’s a NFP event I now ask for a fee to present. I’m not a great bums-on-chairs presenter, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 7 Comments