Author Archives for Moya Watson

Oh give me a home where the bioswale roams …

On Wednesday last week, I joined the Sustainability Walking Tour led by Larry Morgan at SAP Labs Palo Alto.  Larry toured us through a couple of the buildings on campus, pointing out special sustainable features inside and out.

SAP Labs in Palo Alto is located on land shared by Stanford, and SAP worked closely with Stanford in addition to other prominent local giants in the thought- and technology-leadership space to rig up some super cool sustainability features in our buildings.

Sustainability is a topic close to our hearts, ever more so since we’ve created a family upon this earth. Check out the below for a look at how corporations can — and should — lead the charge in pioneering sustainable technologies, and give us a few cool new vocabulary words while they’re at it:

My 2010 year in blogging — thanks to WordPress

Wow — thirteen 747’s — and a lucky number considering my (also here well documented) various flight anxieties.  Thanks, Automattic and all the cool WordPress folks, for this supercool summary!  Though I think you’re mighty generous with the praise, and the post highlights are mostly not my best loved, it’s OK: happily accepted. It’s still my birthday month after all …

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,500 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 23 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 241 posts. There were 28 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was January 6th with 182 views. The most popular post that day was Open-Head Innovation: Lessons from the closed-head fire sprinkler system.

 

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, facebook.com, WordPress Dashboard, leannewaldal.com, and mail.yahoo.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for jicama allergy, moya watson, jicama allergies, allergic to jicama, and allergy to jicama.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Open-Head Innovation: Lessons from the closed-head fire sprinkler system February 2009
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About May 2008
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could i be allergic to JICAMA? May 2003
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Save Our Schools: March 4 Day of Action March 2010
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This Morning’s City Safari July 2010
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As Video Extends its Reach Across the Web, What Is TV?

I haven’t blogged on the SAP Community Network for work in several months, so I’m happy I finally wrenched that elusive set of hours away that it took to put together my report on my recent trip to Los Angeles for video-related conferences:

As Video Extends its Reach Across the Web, What Is TV?

Usually when I go online at conferences and events, I’m reporting on Web 2.0 events or social justice activism or just plain existing. In Los Angeles, the landscape was both unfamiliar and immediate, and it was and still is for me a bit of a reach to put together the growing, stunning implications of the past, present, and future of streaming media on the Web and what it could mean for television — whatever THAT is. I could think of no better place from which to contemplate this disruption than from this center of stardom, the birthplace of celluloid dreams. I welcome your read and thoughts!

Family watching television 1958
By Evert F. Baumgardner [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons