The Nexus of 2024

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  • Welcome!

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    Change is performative.

  • Kallisti on Dreamwidth: Hiiiii! (waves)

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    Ever since Skud’s 2009 OSCON talk I’ve been meaning to check out DreamWidth, and now I finally am.  My account there is kallistixf, and at least for the time being I’ll move some of my more personal posts there and keep Liminal States focused on social networks, diversity, innovation, software engineering, security, and politics. I…

  • Starting the day out …

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    Am I the only person out there who takes a step back every few months to observe how I’m starting my online and day decide what kind of changes I want to make? If you haven’t ever done this, it can be very illuminating.  Back in 2008, for example, when I was doing a lot…

  • Pyr0 on “the art of espionage” at Shakacon

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    Sarah Blankinship and I are presented Securing with the Enemy: Social strategy and team of rivals at Shakacon today.  More about our talk later; this post has notes from the keynote presentation on The Art of Espionage, by Luke McOmie (aka Pyr0) of British Telecom. Luke’s consulting includes “real world risk assessments”, which sometimes involves…

  • Cognitive evolution and revolution, part 1: #polc09 and a #diversityfail

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    Opening slide from early draft of Hashtags at #polc09 Politics Online (1, 2) was a great conference, at least from my perspective.  Starting with the opening session by Secretaries of State Debra Bowen and Jennifer Brunner, every session I went to had great content.   It was a wonderful opportunity to meet friends and colleagues in-person,…

  • Notes on quotes

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    Somebody pointed out to me in email that my repeating the characterization of me as “airing dirty laundry” looks like an example of something that politicians (and persuasive communicators in general) are warned against: publicizing the attacks against you.  It’s an good point, especially since attempts to combat or defuse the attacks often reinforce them…

  • New theme (much of the time): Goodfell3s

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    Update on April 12: back to Goodfell3s. Note on December 12: the theme randomly spontaneously resets to the (blue) default. If that’s what you’re currently seeing, this post may not make a lot of sense. Another theme from Amsterdamn, as pink as the less-than-successful Leone experiment but at first blush a lot more readable. We…

  • w00t, w00t: just “claimed” my blog on Technorati

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    and in the two minutes from when I signed up until I checked the blog’s summary page, its rank went from 4,446,976 to 3,053,157 — at this rate, I should be top 10 by dinner time! Authority = 1 for now, but no doubt once everybody starts crosslinking and adding to their Technorati faves, it’ll…

  • I’ve got fans! Kind of.

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    In  a comment in the Power vectors thread, Vanita said: You were useless (I met with you several times at Microsoft) and it looks like you still are. I am glad to hear you are gone – it made no sense for Microsoft to pay you a hefty salary given the “work” you were doing.…

  • Power vectors and HTML in comments

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    I just made my first HTML comment here, at the end of the Lorelei experiment, pointing to its continuation with Leone (the theme not the director).  w00t w00t! It’s not at all obvious but by default WordPress blogs are set up to allow HTML in comments. There’s no preview feature or WYSIWIG editor though so…

  • New theme: Leone, by Andiz

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    “a lovely theme by Amsterdamn“. alas, it shares the “tiny font” weakness of Leone. it’s two-column layout is clean (and has a blogroll, unlike orchid) although Leone’s three-column layout has more useful information and navigation options on the screen. and it certainly responds to the points that Adam made in the Leone thread: black text…

  • New theme: “Lorelei Bliss 2.0”

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    by Lisa Kazo of Lorelei Web Design.  Usually, when I think of Lorelei, my head spins all around; then again, I do like the three-column layout and color scheme, so it’s worth a try.  Comments welcome.

  • How to use categories and tags? (meta)

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    I’m thinking through how to use categories and tags on this blog … I know I won’t get it completely right the first time so it’s worth starting from the beginning tracking the different experiments I do.  Usefully, WordPress allows multiple categories as well as multiple tags, so one way of thinking about this is…

  • “Liminal states”

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    I’ve been looking around for the right title for the blog.  The initial working title was “Transitions (for the time being)” — “Transitions” being the closest word I had come up with so far, and completely in sync with my mindset as I was setting things up here, but probably not the title I’d want…