About Doug McDavid

Doug McDavid is an Executive Consultant, retired from IBM in 2009. He now maintains a web presence at enterprisology.com.

on IngBrief

Freedom Mobile call forwarding
MMI codes from @FreedomMobile 611 support: Conditional forwarding (when busy + when unanswered + when unreachable) to a Canadian phone number … To activate: *004*1nnnnnnnnnn# To deactivate: ##004# Unconditional forwarding (phone won’t ring, with $0.75 charge per call) … To…Read more ›
Accuweather minutecast
Discovered @Accuweather MinuteCast will forecast rain in neighbourhood down to a 3-place postal code, and show radar weather map. Good for planning short shopping trips on the bike.
Wrap-up smear
“Wrap-up smear” as deflection. @NancyPelosi said “You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge”. Added to lexicon on smear campaign on Wikipedia , based on interview at transcript of CNN’s…Read more ›
Galaxy S2 to Nougat
Updated Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100M smartphone to Android 7 Nougat with ResurrectionRemix OS and GApps Micro. Followed guide/tutorial started in January 2017 for CM14, but then altered for the more active RR community.
ResurrectionRemix on Nexus 10
Installed ResurrectionRemix 5.7 ROM on Nexus 10 Manta tablet, after LineageOS 13 Manta install continued in loop. Wanted alternate living open source OS project after Cyanogen shut down in Dec. 2016. Hardware is durable, software continues to be supported by…Read more ›
WordPress wp-cron.php changed to cPanel cron
To remedy cron jobs not running on WordPress (installed via cPanel), I disabled wp-cron.php in wp-config.php , and set up a job on cPanel. “Icônes cPanel > Avancé > Tâches Cron” | PlanetHoster at https://my.planethoster.net/en/knowledgebase/article/285/icoenes-cpanel-avance-taches-cron “Why WP-Cron sucks” | Lucas Roff…Read more ›

on Media Queue

2013/07/27 Beau Lebens “Taking WordPress to the Front End with O2” (web video)
The WordPress O2 plugin with P2-Breathe theme results in a Facebook-like or Twitter-like streaming interface. The idea was first presented in 2013, evolving from the P2 theme in 2009 (originally launched as Prologue in 2008) when hosted on wordpress.com. “Beau…Read more ›
2016/09/10 Tim Ingold, “The Sustainability of Everything” (web video)
Talk at the Centre for Human Ecology, Glasgow, announced at http://www.che.ac.uk/tim-ingold-talks-about-the-sustainability-of-everything-10th-sept-2016/ Video posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLv9Gk7XrI and https://vimeo.com/182572764 This digest was created by editing the text transcript generated by Youtube. View the video yourself for a more authentic reproduction. Lapses, grammatical…Read more ›
2016/09/07 “One World Anthropology | Tim Ingold | AIBR
Plenary presentation by Tim Ingold, at the 2nd @AIBR_ International Conference of Anthropology. The 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology brings together anthropologists from different parts of the world under the theme “Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers.” [….] [6:58] So…Read more ›
Service Platforms, Living Labs, The Future of Open Innovation | Henry Chesbrough | Sept. 2016 | Berkeley Exec Ed (web video)
Responses @HenryChesbrough on service platforms, living labs, and the future of open innovation. Since 2003, he has provided a precise definition, as the godfather of open innovation. InFocus Podcast with Dr. Henry Chesbrough. Dr. Chesbrough is the Program Director for…Read more ›
2016/05/11 “Apache Open Tech is fueling tomorrow’s game changing innovations” | Todd Moore | ApacheCon North American 2016 (web video)
History of open source at IBM from 1998 @tmmoore_1 @ApacheCon NA 2016, and current IBM Open Cloud Architecture. Todd Moore, VP of Open Technology at IBM will share a retrospective of IBMs deep roots ASF and then follow with some…Read more ›
2012/03/13 Tim O’Reilly interviewed by Andrew McAfee, “Creating More Value Than You Capture”, SXSW Interactive
Digest of an interview of @timoreilly by @amcafee below, abstract from schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100142: One of the great failures of any company – for that matter of a capitalist economy – is ecosystem failure. Great companies build great ecosystems, one in which…Read more ›

on daviding.com

2017/05 Moments May 2017
Fairfield, Iowa; Iowa City; Iowa; Coralville, Iowa; East Moline, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Evanston, Illinois; Kerwood, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario
2017/04 Moments April 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Shanghai, PR China; Kalamazoo, Michigan
2017/03 Moments March 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Santa Clara, California; Milpitas, California; San Jose, California; Oakland, California; Hayward, California; Mountain View, California; Palo Alto, California; San Francisco, California; Mountain View, California; Half Moon Bay, California, Pescadero, California; Santa Cruz, California; Tokyo, Japan
2017/02 Moments February 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Mississauga, Ontario; London, Ontario
2017/01 Moments January 2017
Toronto, Ontario. (A whole month without leaving town, since Don Mills and Scarborough are Metropolitan Toronto)
2016/12 Moments December 2016
Helsinki; Finland; London, England; Dublin, Ireland; Toronto, Ontario; Fairfield, Iowa

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