Finally recoversing the site from a massive hack attack. Most of my site had previously been put together on PmWiki, which was a great wiki and a very easy to use content management tool. However, it had some weak security and someone exploited it, ran a bunch of code through my wiki and sent out 45,000 emails phising for private info. Yikes. I’ve spent a lot of today on the phone with John over at dollarhost and we have figured out what’s going on. The site was so corrupted that we had to delete and reset …
For those of you that read my blog in an RSS feed – thank you. AND, you won’t have noticed that I have added a link roll on the sidebar of my blog, which captures some of the things that I am finding interesting at the moment. These are articles, videos, music and other assorted miscellania that may or may not end up here as a blog post. If you would like to subscribe to that link feed, here is the link. Of course it’s all done through del.icio.us which has just gone through an impressive redesign.
Yesterday Ashley Cooper posted a question on the OSLIST about the enigmatic principle of “whatever happens is only thing that could have: Feeling those gathered in San Francisco, swimming in the hearty open space soup, I find a myself pondering a topic I would host if I were there… a topic I’d love to have a conversation around. I’m curious about the wording of the principle, “what ever happens is the only thing that could have”. I know John Engle brought this question up in the past http://www.openspaceworld.org/news/2007/05/11/whatever-happens/ and I’m still curious about it. I find that people sometimes use …
Yesterday I convened a session on our greatest “ahas” about the Open Space world over the last year…here is a selection from my report: We discussed several things we have noticed over the past year or so that have been major “ahas” for us both as seasoned and new Open Space Technology facilitators. These insights fell into three broad categories. First, it is clear that there is an increasing familiarity with OST and an increasing demand for the process. Furthermore it seems that groups that are using the process are going very deep and using it in very …