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Coworking

kayakermanmike — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:34:48 +0000

A coworker just pointed out QWIRK, a location where you can rent office space or desk space really, by the day, or month and even acquire dedicated desk space on a monthly basis for just $250/mo. This solves a great predicament for anyone who works from home, or travels and needs a more work like atmosphere then the local Starbucks, etc. The place is in Columbus, I don’t know them, but I thought I would give them a plug for a few reasons.

Anyone know any places like this in New England, New Hampshire, Seacoast region?
I want something like this to succeed, gain popularity, and hopefully be more evenly distributed throughout the U.S.

The concept is simple but genius. By offering come and go office space with what professionals need, you give people who may often work alone a chance to brainstorm and network. It’s something that when I used to consult, I lacked but needed. It also gives you a chance to have an office that your customers can come to without you needing to worry about those dishes from last night’s dinner, or if the kids are killing zombies in the living room.

Good luck QWIRK!

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Belated. . .

kayakermanmike — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:49:51 +0000

I’d make a horrible Dad. I know it. Know why? Got any clues? Well, in 2006 on 10-25 at 9:57 P.M. I posted my first article here on Brickblog. Why, I remember when this blog was still in diapers, I was excited to get 1 visit after posting oh so many articles. To date, I’m up to 4,694 visits since I installed Google Analytics (November 9, 2006) to track such things. Truly amazing. What’s even scarrier is when I analyze what kinds of articles bring people to my site, I see when you search for d40 vs d70 my site comes up #1 in google.

So lets think back to what brought this blog to life. . .

Oh thats right, those damn raccoons. They’re still around, in fact I had great fun, ehr, I mean I was left no other option, then to shoot one a couple weeks ago with my paintball gun while I had the electric fence repurposed on the garden for the summer.

But of course, I wouldn’t be here with such an audience if it wasn’t for my peeps. Those folks that both read my insane ramblings, and those that link to my blog. So since I can’t thank every single one of you by name, I’ll be certain to report out what WordPress tells me are the good folks linking to my site.

Thanks!

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Quality of information not dependent on user type says researchers.

kayakermanmike — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:55:01 +0000

Short Note: I’ve started a more professional blog centering around Web 2.0, and Social networking. The need has come from my further involvement with guest lecturing on the topic and needing a profesional blog, in other words no gross pictures of mice in fryer grease, for lectures on blogging. . .

This post comes from that, it was interesting enough to me to feel like duplicating it.

Researchers at Dartmouth College “examined Wikipedia authors and the quality of Wikipedia content as measured by how long and how much of it persisted before being changed or corrected.” and found that the quality of the contributions was not negatively impacted by what they call “Good Samaritans,” or people who just made a one-time edit to correct a mistake.

The concept of a user editable encyclopedia is interesting to me. On one hand I find it extremely useful for looking for information about things that might not be covered in an ordinary encyclopedia. I’ve been known to look for information on things ranging in topic from RAID configurations to how many episodes of the Thundercats have ever been produced. 130 22min episodes for those of you keeping track at home. . .

On the other hand, one has to be careful to consider the source and it’s reliability when citing from, or taking knowledge from it. Lord forbid you happened to grab some info from a vandalized article prior to it’s correction.

I’m interested in hearing from the community what their experience with the online encyclopedia has been. What do you use it for? Do you use it as a primary source or a secondary source of information?

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