Computing Programs

I was at the Ontario Universities’ Fair where all the universities have booths and thousands of high-school kids come through with their parents to shop for programs. After I had done my turn at the McMaster booth I took my son around to find a program that combines computing with arts or game design. Here is what we found.

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology is an innovative and market-oriented institution, pursuing inquiry, discovery and application through excellence in teaching and learning, value-added research and vibrant student life.
(UOIT Vision)

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Quicktime Flickr Photo Viewer

David Wolf’s Quicktime Flickr photo viewer is an interesting applet that will go to the Flickr photo sharing site searches for images tagged with your search word and then shows you the most recent ones. What is impressive is that this is apparently programmed into Quicktime (didn’t know you could do that sort of stuff) and uses RSS. David is going to post a technical note that explains how he did it.
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I’ve been found!

I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you.

I’ve been found! I changed e-mail to avoid spam, and it has found me. At least it speaks well of me 🙂

Roell on Knowledge Worker

Martin Roell has an extended and thoughtful blog entry on the term “knowledge worker”, Das E-Business Weblog: Terminology: “Knowledge Worker”. It starts with a reaction I had to his paper that I blogged earlier (see Roell: Distributed KM.) He then surveys some deeper discussions of what is at stake and ends up with a pragmatic point about communication in business (which he, not I has to do) and the importance of being understood by managers. Setting aside the pragmatics, here is a list of alternative terms that overlap in interesting ways,

  1. business person (what’s the difference between knowledge worker and business person?)
  2. epistemologist (someone who studies knowledge)
  3. philosopher (someone who loves wisdom, but doesn’t necessarily possess it)
  4. sophist (someone who thinks he is wise, but probably isn’t)
  5. office worker
  6. clerk
  7. computer (in the old sense of someone who does computations)
  8. manager

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