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Reader Poll: What's Cisco Going To Do With $30 Billion Bucks? (with HSL prediction)
Posted by: Peter Burrows
Once it completes its surprise $4 billion debt offering, networking giant Cisco Systems will have more than $30 billion in the bank. That's more than Apple at $27 billion and Microsoft at $20 billion, and within sight of Exxon Mobil with $38 billion.
That's got the rumor mill buzzing about a possible mega-acquisition - always a fun excuse for random speculation. But before I dive in, I thought I'd pass on a more mundane possibility, which came to me courtesy of JMP Securities analyst Sam Wilson. He points out that only $3.2 billion of Cisco's cash is currently in the U.S., and that the company will need to spend $500 million of that on February 20 to pay off debt related to its 2005 purchase of Scientific Atlanta. That would leave the company with just $2.7 billion stateside--not much for a company that bought back $10 billion of its own chronically range-bound stock in fiscal 2008. Indeed, the company purchased just $600 million of its shares in the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, compared to an average repurchase of $2.7 billion worth of stock in the previous eight quarters.
Sam thinks it's no coincidence that the debt offering came just days after the Senate killed a proposal to let companies repatriate offshore earnings at lower tax rates. Cisco chairman John Chambers pointed out during a Feb. 4 quarterly earnings call that Ciso was disappointed with the decision, but that the company would move forward. "Cisco made very clear that it wouldn't repatriate a penny," says Wilson. Raising the debt was a fairly pain-free alternative, since Wall Street was glad to support the offering. How many companies these days have $27 billion lying around, in case times get truly tight?
Of course, discussing working capital and stock buybacks isn't nearly as interesting as speculating about possible acquisitions. That's especially true with Cisco, given it's fast expanding sense of self. Just in the past month, the company has announced everything from "media hubs" for distributing music and movies around your home, to back-office servers that put the company in competition with Sun, H-P and IBM. And the company has many other balls in the air at the moment, too. For clues as to what he may want to acquire next, here is what Chambers said during the earnings call regarding his top priorities for the company:
We are prioritizing our top five opportunities for the entire company and making sure that they are properly resourced. These top five priority opportunities are next generation company and next generation customer relationships or what we call internally Cisco 3.0. Second, collaboration/Web 2.0. Third, video and visual networking. Fourth, data center and virtualization. Fifth, globalization.
With this in mind, here are my thoughts on some possible acquisition targets, categorized according to my proprietary "Conceivability" index. They are after the jump:
Very Conceivable:
EMC -- With a market cap of $24 billion, Cisco would pretty much have to break the bank to buy the storage king. But buying EMC would enable Cisco to take a giant step in achieving priority No. 4: "data center and virtualization." After all, the folks who buy the storage for data centers probably control more budget dollars than the network czars Cisco deals with. And storage may well turn out to be a more recession-proof business; companies can skimp on new software, servers and network gear, but they've got to have someplace to store all the digital records and other bytes that are created every day. Plus, EMC owns 83% of VMWare (see below).
NetApp -- With a market cap of $4.9 billion, buying NetApp would be a much cheaper way to become a storage industry leader, compared with buying EMC. I know Cisco's board has considered both of these options seriously in the past. In fact, NetApp modeled itself on Cisco (Cisco essentially created networking appliances, so companies wouldn't need to buy pricier, proprietary networking technology from vertically-integrated companies like Sun and IBM. NetApp would do the same for storage). This was due in large part to the influence of early investor and current boardmember Don Valentine, the legendary Sequoia Capital venture capitalist who also funded Cisco and a was a boardmember there from 1987 to 2005.
VMWare -- The pioneer of virtualization is no longer a stock market darling, and now seems caught directly in Microsoft's crosshairs. But it's still a technology leader, and with a market cap of $9.5 billion may be the most cost-effective way for Cisco to buy a truly gold-plated data center customer list. And Cisco has been courting VMWare for years. It invested $150 million in the company in 2007, and last year struck up a partnership as it stepped up its data center assault.
Less Conceivable
Akamai -- Cisco sees video (priority No. 3) as the rocket-fuel that's going to keep Web demand rising for years or decades to come. Just today, it issued an update on its eye-popping estimates of the impact on traffic. Buying Akamai (market cap: $2.9 billion) would give it the leading content distribution network provider-the company that doles out everything from iTunes songs for Apple to March Madness game broadcasts for CBS. Cisco clearly has designs on this CDN market. Buying Akamai would let it more easily manage a shift from Akamai's more decentralized approach (great for static broadcast content) to a more centralized approach that would facilitate the use of real-time interactive video (like Cisco's own Telepresence videoconferencing systems).
Salesforce -- I suppose Salesforce (market cap: $3.5 billion) might help Cisco with that Priority No. 1--helping companies work more closely internally and with business partners. And Cisco's Webex acquisition shows the company is moving "up the stack" from plumbing to applications that real people use. But selling CRM would open yet another totally new front for a company that's already moving in many directions.
Sun Microsystems -- It's still got great technology (including some promising offerings in the afore-mentioned storage space), and a corporate philosophy--"the network is the computer"--that's right in line with Chambers world view. But Chambers hates nothing more than layoffs, and that would likely be in the cards if he purchased the once-proud server maker (market cap: $4.3 billion).
Barely Conceivable
Research In Motion -- For all of its networking might and product breadth, Cisco has never been a huge player in the now-booming mobile communications market. Since Cisco can't afford Apple, RIMM is the next best thing--and the Blackberry maker serves the corporate set that are still Cisco's bread and butter. But Chambers might well need another loan to buy it outright, given RIM's $32 billion market cap.
Palm -- Buying the new darling of the smart phone set would certainly be the cheaper way to go, given its $860 million market cap. And putting Cisco's sales and marketing might behind the owner of the first brand new mobile computing platform to come along in years might be a powerful combination. And why not throw Cisco onto the list of possible suitors. Some of my sources (only one of which is Palm backer Roger McNamee) think that at some point, old-guard handset players such as Motorola, Samsung or maybe even Nokia will realize that they don't have what it takes to build a true computing platform, and will come a callin.
Motorola -- Cisco would never want Motorola's beleagured handset business, and would never be able to keep the healthier set-top box business on anti-trust grounds (given that Scientific Atlanta purchase). That leaves only MOT's cellular infrastructure business--an area that Cisco has stayed away from. (Market cap: $9.4 billion).
So I'm sure I'm leaving out plenty of other possible candidates. Let me know your ideas.
[via BusinessWeek]
HSL's Thoughts and Analysis
I'm betting 5 rapidly depreciating fiat dollars that say they buy either TANDBERG or LifeSize! If Cisco ever gets serious about publicly available telepresence it would only take about $35MM to do it right...
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Thou keep'st pace with my heart; old lore, old fancies,
Buried for years, leap from their tombs, and proffer
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Blog . Flip Boom Draw! HD
02/02/12 | Posted by Keri Svoboda | Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories
Listen up freshmen! It's time to get animating with FlipBoom DRAW! I have reviewed a lot of animation programs in the past, but this one is the easiest to use by far. Just for those who are having trouble with this app, we've dedicated this review to helping you around the app. My short animation as an example: PART 1: Help first! This is the place where you can get some extra help past the basics. This takes you to the FlipBoom Draw website. PART 2: Learning How to use Frames This button either hides or shows all of your slides/frames. The arrows on this button are arbitrary, and just show that the slides can be shown. They don't have any other function. These highlighted buttons allow you to move the current slide forwards or backwards in the animation. This is especially useful when you decide that a slow motion matrix move should be added in your epic journey. This button allows you to insert a duplicate slide in the next frame/slide. PART 3: Onion Skinning, the Tool of Animators This is called the onion skin tool. This is the gold in the animation world because it allows you, the user, to see frames before and afterwards, like looking through transparencies or tracing paper. USE THIS! It won't show up in your final work. It is meant to be a tool for smooth animations. To turn on onion skinning, you must push this area. It will turn blue when it's on. These selections will increase or decrease the number of slides that you can onion skin, or see, before the current slide. For example, 1 will show me only the previous frame/slide. But increasing it to 5 will show the last 5 frames in increasing transparency the further away the older slides are from the current slide. Let's say that you know where you want to end, but didn't have a good start. That's ok! this part of onion skinning lets you show the frames/slides ahead of the current slide. This can also be used to animate how a character gets from point A to point B. PART 4: Colors VS Brushes You can get to your Brushes panel by pushing the brush on the left side with the sloppy painting skills. The highlighted button here is the option to choose a paintbrush or an eraser. This button changes the shape of the brush. The almond-shaped brush is important for stylistic approaches to calligraphy. Remember that the iPad2 recognizes speed to vary the size of the brush when considering this panel. This button lets you paint in front. This button allows you to paint behind other drawings that were already completed. This is useful because FlipBoom Draw does not have layers, like Photoshop or Flash. The famous brush size slider! Use this to change the size of the brush (obviously). These are your colors! That's it! However, you can use your color mixing skills to optically mix colored lines to get a transitory effect. Note that this is NOT IN THE BRUSHES PANEL. It is NOT THE SAME AS BRUSHES. PART 5: Save and Share It's really this simple. Select the office folder on the top-left of the screen and from left to right, you get: Create new project, open existing project, save current Project, or Delete Current Project. Be warned, you must type in a name or it won't save. There is not default name. From these buttons, you can save either a picture or a video to your iPhotos gallery. From within your iPhotos gallery, you can email it to a friend or even upload it directly to YouTube on your YouTube account! Part 6: Review As I mentioned before, FlipBoom Draw HD is the easiest application to use for animating. There is no text buttons or things to read, but the interface is so simple that some may not even need to read this help review to get the hang of it. I give FlipBoom Draw HD a 5 out of 5 for everything! I found nothing wrong with this application, and that, in itself is an accomplishment enough. FlipBoom Draw HD in iTunes - $4.99 NOTE: all CIA freshmen students were emailed a free redemption code the last week of January 2012. Search "app" in your student email if you missed it.
Scott Ligon
6 years ago
We were disappointed in the amount of bugs in the App as well. Students produced some excellent work, but experienced frequent crashes. Animation Creator HD is a much more stable and full featured "frame-by-frame" animation app for the iPad and has recently made some improvements and added new features. We'd recommend Animation Creator HD after our initial experience with Flip Boom.
Michael Lang
6 years ago
This software, as a casual game or elementary school learning tool, is easy for people to pick up for someone who has never used an animation program or drawn with a tablet. As a professional learning tool to be used by a college level institution, it is utterly worthless and full of bugs. This software doesn't even have cut and paste options... As a student being required to use it for a 700 frame project, it was maddening to use. I learned to use Macromedia Flash in 2004, and that software never crashed. This crashes if attempting to view over 40 frames at one time. It crashes every 10 new frames, not to mention as you add frames the program has no sort of memory management; therefore, whether or not you are viewing all the frames in your project or not, it's rendering them! Running slower, and slower, and slower, and slower yet. I got about 200 frames in and just duplicated the rest. If you are a teacher and reading this, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME, OR YOUR STUDENTS' TIME ON THIS TERRIBLE SOFTWARE! If you consider yourself a professional, you would immediately know this software is NOT a good example of animation software, it is very limited and extremely bugged.Don't use it. 0/5 stars


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Domesday on a map
Please note, as we are no longer continuing to develop this tool, we intend to remove it from Labs by the end of March 2014.
This tool enables you to search and browse over 90% of the places mentioned in Domesday Book.
The easiest way to get started is to simply search by place name or post code; from there you can zoom and pan around the map to further investigate Domesday. We have also created two experimental functions that indicate places mentioned in Domesday Book likely to be of Viking origin or that are related to cranes (the bird) – use the 'Map extras' link to turn these on or off. Place names have been automatically extracted and located on the map, so some errors may occur. Please let us know if you find any and we will correct them.
What is Domesday?
Domesday Book was William the Conqueror's great survey of England of 1086. It is our most famous and earliest surviving public record, a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the King and his chief tenants, along with all the resources that went with the land in late eleventh century England. The survey was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement. There is nothing like it in England until the censuses of the 19th century.
Comments (116)
Maureen Knight
I found it very easy to use but since I first used I now find the map will not load in IE but it does in Firefox. I think this is due to Microsoft's last security update, I found that it wasn't the pop up blocker.
Maybe this is why others are having problems
Out of curiosity, why have you included 'estimated place boundaries' for Domesday places and how did you estimate them?The National Archives reply:
Hi Andrew,
The estimated place boundaries were included to give an overview of the density of places mentioned in the Domesday Book at the intermediate zoom levels. At the lower zoom levels, the density heatmap is sufficiently detailed and at the higher zoom levels the places can be displayed individually. The intermediate zoom levels presented a problem, as the heatmap is not sufficiently precise, but at the same time the large number of places to display would mean that if all were displayed the application would become excessively slow. The estimated place boundaries presented a compromise, they are more detailed than the heatmap and give an estimated view of how dense the actual Domesday places are in that area, but at the same time are simple enough that the application remains responsive.
The estimated place boundaries were determined using a geometric method called a Voronoi diagram. Basically the boundary lines represent those points that are an equal distance from the closest two or Domesday places and all points within a single boundary are those that are closest to Domesday place that sits inside that boundary. The boundaries are purely geometric and in no way imply that this is where the boundaries ran at the time Domesday Book was written.
We are working on an update where the estimated place boundaries are faded out, when the individual places become visible, to reduce their impact when browsing at the most detailed level.
Karl Eichner
I have the same probeelm with IE. I turned off the pop up blocker and all filtering. When I entered a location, I got an error message and the page was frozen.
Dr GM Draper
I would most certainly like to know how and why you have included so-called 'estimated place boundaries'. DB does not record them. Places (i.e. manors, towns and other settlements) in DB were often not discrete settlements anyway, nor by any means always located where modern settlements of the same name are! Is this a mapping exercise too far!?The National Archives reply:
Dr Draper,
thank you for your interest in this new application. We have replied in full to an earlier similar query, this should appear a couple of comments above your own on the page, but to summarise , these boundaries are intended to give the user an idea of the density of Domesday-mentioned places in the viewed area while the map is at an intermediate zoom level. They are not meant to signify boundaries that existed in Domesday.
This application is, as with all applications on the Labs site, still in development, so we welcome your feedback and suggestions regarding anything you like, or think doesn't work and can be improved.
We hope you continue to use the site and let us know what you think as applications are further developed.
Steve Draper
With IE you need to select "compatibility mode", this allows sites to be displayed when they have been designed for old browsers. You'll now see the map scroll and zoom controls.
Then the map will come up with a permanent "loading" animation. It's actually there, but zoomed out so far that the whole world is a dot. Click the zoom + button and a map of the world appears. The quickest way to get to the right bit of the UK is to double click repeatedly to centre and zoom-in on your target.
When you zoom in far enough the general density colouring will vanish, the weird boundary lines will appear, and the Domesday Places symbol will appear in the legend. Unfortunately I can't make it appear on the map itself, so can't drill down into the Domesday records.
The Crane symbol seems to work ok, although the linguistic basis for the choice of "Crane places" seems as dubious as the basis of the estimated place boundaries.
Lin Wright
Saw the site advertised in the Bucks Herald but for whatever reason the maps don't show apart from a very thin strip. Not really a lot of use.
Unable to download maps with XP. Not much use really!
Eric Rose
Had the same problems with IE8 but used Google Chrome and it works perfectly. Chrome can be downloaded from Google free of charge.
Peter Jones
Went to look at Doomsday map but all I got for nearly FIVE minutes was 'LOADING' Does anything else happen. I use Internet Explorer and noted previous comment by Maureen Knight
Ms Baker
Was really excited when this email came through and clicked the tab it then took 20 mins to download and then wouldnt load any further when I clicked on the 'get started' tab!
Lesley Watts
I can view the map OK, but it appears to be just a modern road map. The legend key is visible but I can't see any Domesday places marked on the map at any zoom level, even where I know there should be some. I am using Firefox. Is there something wrong with map, the browser, or the way I am using it?
Linda Dutton
I used Google Chrome and its took absolutely ages to load. I then ended up with what looked like an ordinary Google map. The Domesday data didn't load unfortunately. Shame.
It takes forever (over 5 minutes) to load even though I have a reasonably fast (6Mb) Broadband connection.
Bob Rust
After the email invite, using XP IE set to 'compatability' at 8Mb wasted half an hour getting loading symbol and a blank mauve rectangle. Bugs need ironing.
Roger Holmes
Using Safari on a Mac the OS Map loads fine, then get covered by a pink translucency and question marks in blue boxes making it hard to read then it says loading for ages and no Domesday markers appear. I zoomed in and I zoomed out but nothing when centred onpostcode TN26 3EQ. Surely Maidstone or somewhere nearby is mentioned. I know my home may have been inaccessible forest in the 11th century but there must have been some places in mid Kent mentioned. I clicked on the contact us button at the bottom of the page and it says the URL does not exist.
My fire wall is blocking the active X content so I cannot interact with the map
Took ages to load. Was still showing loading after map appeared.
Although it says the orange areas are on the Domesday map, there is no detail and I don't understand how the modern map relates.
I'm using Google Chrome via Tisacali broadband.
AFat Paul
I used the email link received this am… url wouldn't load, tried agian later… wouldn't load.
Finally arrived here, three hours later, now waiting for the Postcode to dpownload.
So far I have biled three kettles and cooked a ham shank!
I wonder if there are just too many people trying to acces sthe site and it's crashing?
Ho hum… so looking forward to seeing this innovative attempt…. after ten years research! NOt sure I have ten years left in me!
patrick Nagle
same kit as Roger Holmes same problem as Roger pink pink pink !
Duncan Clee
First impressions…
Under "Enter a location" the "Searching…" text and "wait logo" are still going on and on…
In spite of this I can use the map, which responds quickly. However, the "wait logo" is centred on the map, precisely over the point where I am trying to zoom in to. Could you move it to one side, so that we can repeatedly zoom in by clicking without having to drag the map to one side first?
Duncan Clee
Second impressions…
Apart from allowing me to zoom around a modern map of the UK, what does this actually do?
(Firefox 3.6.11, updated yesterday)
Joyce Malarkey
Tried to load the page nothing happening at all ,,, just keeps coming up loading error on page –what a waste of time .. Very disappointed to say the least .
Sharon Murray
I got the message at the end of this comment when I first clicked on Get Started, but setting IE to compatibility mode seemed to fix it.
Maps are a fantastic tool for local and family historians. (Have a look at the Cheshire TIthe Maps at http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/)
Are there any plans to digitise any other maps held by the TNA in the future?
Keep up the good work,
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Elizabeth Howard
I have the same problem it just does not upload .
Will not work on Mac in Firefox, Chrome or Safari – just sits "searching" and processes base map but that is all. Lots of errors about "server could not be found" in the Safari activity logs.
Simon Mortimore
I have tried it in Chrome and IE and when I enter a search parameter get the searching icon but nothing happens after this
As with many others, I have tried to use this in IE and it has been "loading" for the past ten minutes but nothing else has happened and no maps have loaded. It's a shame because this looked as though it was going to be a useful and interesting tool.
Peter Scales
I'm with Lesley Watts – I can only see a road map. Firefox 3.6.10 running on Windows 2000 with all SPs and patches.
Lee Mumbray-Williams
This is currently deeply frustrating; I'm not getting anywhere despite several attempts. When the problems are ironed out it's going to be a really useful tool for my students.
Frankie Liles
The Doomsday Map will not load. Also, apparently I cannot even submit this comment until I was told to type 40 characters!
Maggie D
Trying to use this as Ancestry and Teaching tool for school. Not loading at all, pink 'sheet' with unopened boxes. Couldn't even find Berkshire – I have domesday book for Berkshire – so I know it is there. Why release something that doesn't work or give clearer instructions please.
Good idea shame it doesn't work!. blah blah blah just having to make it more than 40 letters.
Roger Stacey
I have the same problem as Leslie Watts (20 October at 10.47). Any answers?
A modern road Map loaded OK but couldn't get anything else to appear e.g. Map Extras and colours etc.
I couldn't see any Domesday places marked on the map at any zoom level, tried Warwickshire area. I am using Firefox.
Amanda Mather
Had problems loading map and cannot see any Domesday sites at all – will try other suggestions on this subject; also, just a small observation, there is a spelling error – cemetery appears (in GL7 4HL post code area) as 'cemetary'.
Gillian Devine
Haven't been able to access the Domesday information but noticed the following three transcript errors on the map
Frencham Road should be Frensham Road
Hatchhouse farm should be Hale House
Crossways is the area at the cross roads not the name of a road.
Alan O'Brien
Tried several times today but the system just hangs search after I input a place names.
peter lapper
It looks a good idea, but dose not work for me. I have windows vista system.
Problems with IE?
What a surprise!
Try Firefox or Chrome – both free and free of Microsoft and its bugs
Shame stilll not working!
Eric Hill
Still having problems will try another time.
Nice idea, hope you can sort it out.
Geoff Lamy
It is just a never ending' loading' process!!
hi, seemed like a good idea till i found i couldn't load any maps – or photos from history photo finder. I don't believe if was Firefox's fault. maybe everyone flooding it. if i remember about it I'll try in a month when things have quietened down. if it isn't that, it's too slow for anyone's patience
Why don't you check things first. This is very amateurish. I won't be coming back as there are too many sites that work properley
It will be soooooo nice when it works correctly
Same prob, not loading. The list of location links flashed umder the search tab but then disappeared and the search went back to loading
Just keeps saying 'loading' and no orange symbols appear – Chrome and XP in slow rural area. So useless so far!
Paul Naylor
Nothing happens, just stuck on loading, ridiculous to tell people to use it before it is ready
…..loading……..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz …………….. so disappointed
Can't download maps in XP. Presumably you've tested this beforehand – but it ain't working!
Ian Jones
Like Roger Holmes, I'm using Safari on an Apple/Mac. The map of UK loads quickly but covered with a pink haze and ? marks, no Domesday markers. No problem zooming and moving around. I searched for Kendal, Windermere, Preston and finally Canterbury. No results for any of these.
peter Levarre-Waters
still wont load past the std google map, I use win7 & IE7.. it will be worth sending a new email update when the problem is fixed
Can't get started at all. First would not load, then said it was loading. Inbetween everywhere I searched there were no Photo's.
Waste of time at the moment……
richard isaac
The search engine is not functioning.
Endless location searches failed to produce
any maps. You will have to get the coder back
on the job.
What a colossal waste of money e-mailing thousands of users without even conducting rudimentary tests to ensure it was working. Unbelievable.
Thanks for the work that you have put into this project. I hope that everyone will show a little patience. The wait for the fix will be most worthwhile.
I have tried to enter places such as London, but says it cannot locate . What should I be entering?
worked very well on my old laptop on IE. Typed in a post code, map came up in squares pink showing villages and lilac squares showing nothing. Red blobs all over in both pink and lilac squares, clicked on them, some loaded and produced the name of the village with information such as a list of names, mostly unrecognizable, some carried on loading showing nothing. Kirkham which I thought ws in the Domesday book didn't seem to have a blob. Great Plumpton did and loaded so I ordered and paid £2 for something that will be sent by email but I have no idea what it is
Dr Michael Steer
It's a great idea, but I haven't yet been able to download it. It's turned out to be an extraordinary time-waster
Tom Dempsey
any half decent webdesigner would have tried out their webpage on the five most popular browsers using MacOS, Linux and Microsoft before inflicting it on the general public
Guess you've fixed your technical problems – yesterday I couldn't get access, today it's fine.
But Gillingham, Dorset (Gelingeha in the Domesday book I understand) seems to be missing _ I have used the search and looked for the orange icon, neither shows an entry. In view of your comment "Place names have been automatically extracted and located on the map, so some errors may occur." I checked the other Gillinghams to see if the info. had landed on them but they don't appear to have entries either.
Paul Mason
Same problem as several others…too long to download so gave up.
Is it a micrsoft problem? If so can you get in touch with them to get them to fix it.
still says "loading" – hopeless !!
Theo Gray
The important data on the page appears to be linking to the host gis.nationalarchives.web.local instead of gis.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
I have just tried adding the following line into my hosts file and the majority of the site then works really well:
188.8.131.52 gis.nationalarchives.web.local
There are also links to dev.nationalarchives.web.local including the header graphics and Contact Us link at the bottom of the page; these presumably should actually be pointed at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
Looks great with the Domesday GIS data working properly :-)
allan cooke
im having trouble getting a map or maps on a project im doing . Skellow Hall , Skellow , near Doncaster South Yorkshire is about all the information i can give , please help as going back to 1550 to 1650 would be good. thank you
allan cooke
Dr Bethany Sinclair, Archivist, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
As an aficionado of maps and mapping strategies, I have tried this website three times, and finally on the third attempt, I was able to get access to my home town of Orpington in Kent and find all the related Domesday sites near 'Orpintun' … this is a fledging resource still under development but in terms of a tool within cultural mapping, it will be an excellent resource once it's completed with all hitches ironed out.
Des Hughes
I too was unable to upload
Dennis De Wilde
I haven't been able to access the site yet, but I understand and thank you for your followup letter. I look forward to using the site, when it is up and running. Cheers
John Dean
Tried DD map yesterday and it worked fine on a Mac using Firefox. Map server technology never works perfectly first time. This is a very useful resource. DD book is essentially spatial data and DD map is a potentially invaluable tool for exploratory data analysis.
Brian Miller
Time consuming download. Place names taken from the Domesday Book not recognised but postcodes are. No markers for Dover or Deal – or anywhere!
Geoff Matthews
What a wonderful tool for people like myself studying for a Masters Dergree in History (currently on Medieval history) What a pit that i cannot open it in IE. How on earth could you have a program that does not open in the software that Possibly 95 % of the nation use. A great pity
Well it works now – but there are mapping errors. If I search for BRERETON (in Cheshire) it incorrectly locates BRERETON (in Staffordshire) but the click-through to the National Archives main site gives me the correct data for Brereton (Cheshire). So its locating the wrong settlement on the map but giving the correct Domesday entry! I checked the validity of the Domesday entry at http://domesday.pase.ac.uk/.
The PASE site is also a very good resource and overlaps with what is trying to be achieved here. Perhaps all parties should get together and provide one definitive resource?The National Archives reply:
Thank you very much for highlighting an error in our automatically geo-referenced data. The automatic nature of the process that created the Domesday map data unfortunately means that a number of such errors will slip through. Our current estimates are that about 5% of the automatic geo-references are incorrect. We are working to improve the geo-referencing algorithms, which should further reduce the number of errors and also on methods to simplify the way in which you can provide us with feedback about these errors.
Gus Tysoe
Thank you for the explanatory e-sending this morning – it at least explains a part of the problems I encountered 2 days ago.
But I'm sorry to have to inform you that after some 10 minutes of watching the "loading propellor" I still can't reach the map itself. I'm using Windows XP and Internet Explorer with the most recent updates.
I do hope you'll be able to fully-fix – I'll be patient…..
Ruth Morgan
Unfortunately wasted a lot of time trying to open this before seeing comments! All I could find was south pole and coast of Nigeria! What those have to do with Domesday I have no idea.
F Clarke-Rowland
Requested Sheffield, S. Yorks. Stopped loading after 10 min and on zooming in found I was centered in Ghana. There were not many doomsday towns there so scrolled north to Burkina Faso and found no Doomsday places there either. A powerful tool for anyone researching the Norman takeover of Africa in 1066.
Clicked in once, but no back button when I wanted to change area. Then tried to click in from the home page countless times, but no response. Good idea though, once everything is ironed out. Dismayed to find I'd have to pay for info despite waiting for ages for any kind of website response and this being a beta site. There would be more incentive to try it out if results are free for a while.
Works fine on MacBook using Safari. A wonderful tool.
Lyn Blewitt
Oh dear. Great tool if it worked – I too had delays loading (running XP, through the AOL e-mail address, with BT Internet as my ISP). I entered Droitwich, which has the highest number of entries across DB of all place-names in the country – and got 'not found'. It also doesn't show up on the map. More work to do, please!!
Loaded no problem in laptop using Windows 7 but on my desktop using XP would only load after 5mins or so to a road map. Suggest XP users are not going to be able to use it unless you can come up with an answer.
Extremely poor – you need to start again – no data loaded – gave up three times – very few photographs
Susan Young
The map is not loading (or perhaps taking too long to load). I earlier looked at the Dixon photographic collection and have now found both applications to be absolutely frustrating to navigate and to obtain, quickly, the desired information. While these two application 'look' very pretty, sleek and sophisticated, I think the archives needs to bear in mind that people searching its collections are generally very experienced researchers who want to be able to access the data, a) in as least many steps as possible; b) demand indexed text links to permit rapid switching of locations with some indication if content is available or not; c) master index to a particular geographical area, e.g. index the places available in Kent as a whole, rather than having to think about which place to search next only to discover that there was no information for that place in any event. To a novice researcher, (and I have taught many) each of these new applications would just confuse them and frustrate them entirely. I'm afraid that what could have been very useful collections and facilities online are now not even going to be considered by me as serious research stops, in future, unless many changes to functionality are made.
Chris Willis
Domesday doesn't workfor me. I tried Yateley, then Winchester and Alresford. I sometimes got a link below the box, but never gotan actual map display. Error message below.
Chris Willis
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yvonne herne
Tried a couple of places without success so put in Norwich which is shown on the map and this too came up as 'not found'
ken gittins
Good results with downloads using Google Chrome. Enjoyed seeing photos from the twenties and thirties days. The names of people in DB are fascinating.
Janet Burgess
Cannot download the map. Could someone explain where I would find the compatibility mode?
John Dunsford
I have tried two villages with no result,
One of the – the village of Dunsford I know is in Domesday because I have dwnloaded enroies from TNA – what is happening?!
John Gray
Looking for John Grays
John Gray
Yes, it seems that Apple Mac + Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc. can not make headway!
Graham Crisp
Obviously still very much work in progress. There are a number of townships/parishes to the west of Nottingham that are not included and those that are do not include all references.
Not printable! Wasted too much time already.
Dosn't work for me just sits there saying
Jackie White
I know the Manor of Woodcroft was in the doomsday book, even Luton Bedfordshire appears but as far as this programme is concerned after waiting nearly 10mins to download it found nothing in the area I was interested in or any of the surrounding area. Not at all easy to use. Not very good.
Raymond Williams
While waiting for the map I asked for the area around York. Your reply, not listed. No York? Back to the drawing board. Please!
Valory Hurst
I left the programme running for over half an hour. The OS map was visible, as were the estimated place boundaries, but no orange markers.
PRETTY HOPELESS PERFORMANCE. PROMISES "LOADING" FOR HOURS BUT NOTHING HAPPENS. RESPONSE FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES IS JUST AS BAD – LOTS OF NEGATIVE COMMENTS FROM WOULD BE USERS BUT NO REPLIES AND NO IMPROVEMENTS.The National Archives reply:
Bryan, we are sorry that you, and some other users, are continuing to experience problems with our Domesday application. Given the large number of similar comments, we tried to address them all in the blog by David Thomas, our Director of Technology, which appears on the right hand side of all the pages on Labs. Please be assured that we are still working to improve the service and do read and take note of all feedback received. Thank you for your time and comments.
Grahame Boyett
Will not load!!!
Seems there is a problem with uploading the map and info. So many people cannot be doing it wrong. Such a disappointment. Help!!
Very poor 'performance'. Was the application ever tested before becoming live?
Project management for this public sector IT project should be independently scrutinised.
David Thomas
I am sorry if you are not happy with the performance. The idea of Labs is to enable us to try out new services in beta test versions to get user input. These are not meant to be finished products. You and other users are providing us with independent scrutiny.
John B.T. Low
It is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Typical government run set up where the idea is good but always fail to deliver! I dread to think how much money has been wasted on this.The National Archives reply:
As mentioned in the response above, the essence of Labs is to enable us to try out new services in beta test versions to get user feedback. All the prototypes on the Labs site are trials which have been produced at very low cost. They are purposefully not finished products so that, before we invest, we are able to find out what you – the user – thinks about them and whether you would find them useful. This will then help us focus our limited funding and resources in a way that supports our customers best. We appreciate your feedback and hope that you will find some of the tools trialled here useful and engaging.
Fantastic – no problems loading (Chrome). Extremely useful tool… keep up the good work :-)
It's working OK today and I found it very interesting. Loads of information available there. Not a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to be able to do move the map with the "little hand thing" though like on googlemaps etc.
Andrew L
Like others, I can only get it to work using Firefox, but frankly, that comes as no surprise given Microsoft's track record.
As someone with a keen professional interest in both Domesday Book and GIS, I find this to be an interesting experiment in web mapping, but even at beta stage, there are a number of aspects I find far from satisfying.
The interpolated 'density of places' layers (the 'heat maps' of Domesday and Viking places) ought to be clipped so they do not extend beyond the coastline. I'll grant that there has been coastal erosion (sometimes considerable) in a variety of places since the late eleventh century, but the 'heat maps' layers extend out beyond the 12-mile limit. Taken literally, the maps suggest there were at least a few Domesday and/or Viking places well into the North Sea or the Channel.
I am also curious what method of interpolation was used to generate the 'heat map' layers. My guess is some kind of density interpolator, but if so, it does not appear that any consideration has been given to edge effects. In the maps presented, the density of places along the coastlines is artificially (and incorrectly, I think) shown as uniformly low.
Finally, I gather some form of automated, algorithmic method of geolocating the points representing the Domesday places was used. By your own admission (and as indicated by several earlier comments on this blog post), the automated geolocating process has not been perfectly succesful. Did you make any use of the list of identified Domesday places (which includes 4-figure Ordnance Survey National Grid References) in the 2002 Alecto Historical Editions 'Digital Domesday Book', and if not, why not? As a digital version of the most scholarly edition of Domesday Book yet, that would seem a good place to start.
I will be interested to see if and how this resource develops.
This tool "This tool enables you to search and browse over 90% of the places mentioned in Domesday Book" has left me both bemused and mistifyed..why anyone should create or advertise this tool especially in conjunction which other excellent reasearch tools and data I do not know…the first load gave me an outline of Africa…didn't know Kinshasa was in the Doomsday book!! sliding the map up ( a bar or "hand " useful but not available) arrive at Britain in an impresionist set of colours…no key except that of a yellow blob to indicate Domsday sites…except that there weren't any even with the scales increased…I got a map of black lined enclosures at three bars from the top of the scale and any further up a red mist appeared over the whole map. Using the enhanced features..the vikings brought up nothing in Yorkshire( I was looking at the East riding in particular as was looking for known sites) but one hit for cranes..a red square which I assume to be Hutton Cranswick south of Driffield although as it was not named and the scale/position a little inaccurate it would have been difficult to identify otherwise. Very disappointing and an opportunity wasted… I know that this is beta but after all these months/comments I assume it will not be going live in this format otherwise it will give a very poor impression
Lisa Ward
Hi there,
I am writing a thesis relating to the use of georeferencing in order to provide alternative access points for archival material and would like to use the Domesday project as a case study.
Is there any supporting material for this project that you would be willing to let a poor student use? For example, development brief, evaluations, user analysis etc?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards
Barry Chinchen
Estleie (now Eastleigh) in Hampshire is in the Domesday book but was not located by your search.
Keith Cornford
Tried a number of places, some of which I was sure were in Domesday and were shown on the map but did not feature as part of Domesday. However, having a visual map of the Domesday sites in the area was helpful. Is it intended to include other details such as rateable values, activities, hides, areas etc ?
Sheila Jubb
Oct 2013: The map still doesn't load. But it was good to find that two place I entered are mentioned in the Domesday Book
Sheila Jubb
Map now loaded – by clicking on the map itself. Sorry to not notice that before!


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Stefano's Golden Baked Hams
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Couldn't wait for the rest of the family to have Thanksgiving dinner, so I cut a few pieces of hams of the one we got yesterday from Stefano... (more)
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I received a ham for Thanksgiving. It was severely overcooked and dry. When I brought this to their attention, they merely dismissed me wi... (more)
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When I am ever in need of a good lunch, Stefano's is one of my top places to go to. Not only do they have tasty ham but they also serve am... (more)
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Tried the spiral ham for the first time last year. I'll never order the other brand again. This ham was more flavorful and less salty. Getti... (more)
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We've been getting our hams from Stefanos the last few years. We found them just as good as HoneyBaked hams without the outrageously long l... (more)
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Normally, I would fly back from college for the summer - but this time I decided to do something a little different. I have taken the Amtrak Cascades from Vancouver, WA to Seattle before, but I had not gone on a long distance train trip. In my case, it would have been faster and very slightly less expensive to fly from Phoenix, AZ to Portland, OR; however, I had time to spare and the extra $10 turned out to be well worth it. Additionally, Amtrak allows passengers to take a much larger amount of baggage for free than the airlines do: two 50 pound carry-on items, two personal items, and two 50 pound checked bags. This superior baggage policy allowed me to bring by belongings home for free.
I began the trip by taking the Amtrak Thruway Bus (really a ten-passenger van operated by Arizona Shuttle) from Phoenix to Flagstaff, AZ, where the Southwest Chief stops on its way from Chicago to Los Angeles.
After arriving at the Flagstaff train station, I was greeted by a friendly station attendant who checked my large bag. Flagstaff's early economy was bolstered by its location on the transcontinental railroad, and it still enjoys a large number of freight trains passing through. Additionally, there was live music in the Flagstaff Visitor Center, which is located in one half of the train station.
By the time I boarded the Southwest Chief, it was dark outside and I was unable to take any pictures of much interest. However, I was surprised by the smooth ride at 90 mph which allowed me to comfortably finish writing a paper. We arrived at Needles, the first stop in California at approximately 12:40 AM, and I fell asleep shortly thereafter.
When I awoke nearly four hours later, it was raining lightly as we made our way through San Bernardino. During this part of the trip, I was able to see many Metrolink commuter trains and a dumpster with "NASA" written on the side. We arrived on time at Los Angeles, where I waited for approximately two hours for the Coast Starlight, which was being readied for its run to Seattle.
After boarding, I promptly made my way to the observation car where I spent the majority of the trip. The best scenery began as the train made its way through the Santa Susana Mountains and along the Southern California coast.
Passing through Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Trails & Rails guides pointed out several rocket launch sites, an underground missile silo and the California Men's Colony.
In addition to the vast expanse of agricultural land, we passed through an active oil field which provided an interesting contrast to the natural scenery.
The Salinas rail yard contained an old locomotive and several vintage train cars.
After leaving Oakland, I was able to sleep until the morning when we moved through the Siskiyou into Oregon. The observation car provided unobstructed views across Upper Klamath Lake and down the mountain slopes into dense fog.
Logged areas provided a line of sight into the distance.
Passing through Oregon City, I was able to see across the top of Willamette Falls to the Willamette Falls Dam and the now-defunct Blue Heron paper mill. This dam initially provided electricity for Portland in 1889, and is still used to this day.
At approximately 3:30 PM, the train arrived in Portland and waited for operators to close the lower deck of the Steel Bridge before pulling into Portland Union Station. The Steel Bridge is considered to be one of the most multimodal bridges in the world, as it carries cars, buses, and light rail on the top deck, and bicycle, pedestrian, and rail traffic on the lower deck.
From here, the train crossed two more rail bridges and the Columbia River, before arriving at my final destination of Vancouver, Washington. Crossing the Columbia River Railroad Bridge took longer than expected because two barges needed to pass through before the swing span could be closed.
Taking the train was a very worthwhile experience, and I would suggest it if you have the opportunity. If you can sleep in a relatively comfortable reclining seat with a leg rest, and bring along some snacks, the train is also reasonably priced.


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Did you know RockTape turns down the volume on pain from injuries?
ll the more particularly, it runs impedance on torment. Ever whack your shin and rub it, and all of a sudden it feels better? RockTape on the skin can help with difficult signs which are coordinated to the cerebrum.


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The hotel's lounge area with leather sofas and contemporary decor is the perfect place to put your feet up and serve equally well as an area to catch up with friends family or colleagues. You have the option of 2 excellent eating experiences at the Barnstaple Hotel. The varied restaurant menu makes use of local ingredients and the Sunday carvery is particularly popular among residents and guests alike.
The stylish minimal interior design creates a modern feel and creates an ideal setting for you to enjoy a memorable meal in. And with our lively children's menu you'll find we take great care of our younger guests too. Alternatively you can choose from a range of light bites and main meals in the bar and lounge areas.
Complete with big screen TVs you can take some time out to watch live sports events or find a quiet corner and sip on a professionally mixed cocktail. Perfect. But what makes the hotel really special is the fantastic on-site health and leisure club with heated indoor and outdoor pools a cutting edge gym and range of alternative therapies on offer.
How Refreshing.You'll find plenty of space to make your own here at The Barnstaple Hotel. Your room comes with everything you need for a restful night's sleep including a TV and teacoffee making facilities. Your en suite bathroom is stylishly finished with modern fittings.
Most rooms have views over the outdoor pool and garden area. Perhaps more than anything else it is the location that makes The Barnstaple Hotel so special. Set on the outskirts of England's oldest borough and on the coastal side of the town the hotel is only a 5 to 10 minute walk from the centre of Barnstaple.
You are ideally placed to discover the delights of North Devon's golden coastline. The miles of beautiful beaches offer everything from water sports to beach combing. Barnstaple itself provides a wealth of things to do including 10-pin bowling go-karting and an excellent shopping centre.
All over North Devon you will find amazing attractions such as the Milky Way Adventure Park and Exmoor Zoo. Or if you enjoy walking the fantastic sights at Lynmouth Lynton and The Valley of the Rocks are unmissable.
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In the Sanctuary of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Keith, there has stood for more than a hundred years a simple, polished wooden chair. It has, however, been in Keith for nearly 200 years, because it was bought by a Keith resident in 1816, who sold it to the Reverend John Murdoch, Priest of the Episcopal congregation in Keith for 50 years from 1800. He left it to the congregation when he died. It was in the 1807, during Murdoch's incumbency, that 'The New Episcopal Chapel' was opened in Keith, so presumably, that was the first church home of the chair, as the present church was not consecrated until 1883.
The Seabury Chair has more than local significance; in fact, it is of historical importance to the Episcopal Church
in Scotland. More than that it is of significance to a whole continent and one of the largest parts of the whole Anglican Communion. Because this is the chair in which the Primus of Scotland, Robert Kilgour, sat to ordain the Episcopate, Samuel Seabury, on an historic day, 14th November 1784.
Samuel Seabury was a graduate of Yale University, where he studied theology, and of Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine. In 1753 in England, he had been ordained Priest by the Bishop of Lincoln and went as a missionary to North America, working in both New Brunswick and New York. America was the colony of Britain but in the 1783, following the War of Independence, the British signed the Treaty of Versailles acknowledging the complete independence of the thirteen colonies that later become the United States of America.
Samuel Seabury had remained loyal to Britain in the war, but in 1783, the Church in America elected him as the first Bishop of Connecticut and, ipso facto, the first Bishop of the new American States.
This put him and the American Church in a difficult situation. The only place he could go for Episcopal Ordination was England. But if he went there he could not take the Oath of Allegiance to an English king because he would have been a traitor to america, which no longer acknowledged the English Crown. Moreover, English bishops, by law, could not create a bishop who would not take that oath.
There was one other place to which he could go to be made bishop. The Episcopal Church in Scotland did not favour swearing an Oath of Allegiance to any king other than the one they believed to be the true King of Scotland, James III, (father of Bonnie Prince Charlie). And the Episcopalians in Scotland were still trying to recover from draconian Penal Laws, which the British Government had imposed following their part in the Second Jacobite Rising and the subsequent Battle of Culloden in 1745-6. They agreed to ordain Seabury to the Episcopate; the Scottish Primus said, "Send him to Aberdeen".
So Samuel Seabury, Bishop-elect of Connecticut, joined Primus Robert Kilgour, John Skinner (Bishop of Aberdeen) and Bishop Petrie in John Skinner's house in Long Acre, Aberdeen and knelt before them. They laid their hands on his head in the manner of Church law, which requires three bishops t make a new one. So began the mighty ECUSA – the Episcopal Church of The United States of America. The chair in which Primus Kilgour sat was henceforth know as'The Seabury Chair'.
On his return to America, Seabury was welcomed warmly by the clergy of the Diocese of Connecticut. He was presented with the following address, which recalled the previous attempts to receive a valid and free Episcopacy from the Church of England and the failure of the attempts:
"But, blessed be God, another door was opened for you in the mysterious economy of His Providence, He had preserved the remains of the old Episcopal Church of Scotland under all the malice and persecutions of its enemies. In the school of adversity, its pious and venerable Bishops had learned to renounce the pomps and grandeur of the world, and were ready to do the work of their heavenly Father. And wherever the American Church shall be mentioned in the world, may this good deed which they have done for us be spoken of for a memorial of them."
Please remember Bishop Samuel Seabury, the Diocese of Connecticut and the Episcopal Church of the United Staes of America on this day, 14th November, with great thankfulness.


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Mai Lookboonmee (0-0) vs Sorn Sakwaroon (0-0)
One of the interesting things about the Thai boxing scene is how many "debutants" look like ready made professional fighters due to previous, or even on going, careers in Muay Thai. This can mean that some all debutant fights actually look like they are being fought between two young but somewhat experienced fighters. One such all-debutant bout occurred recently when Mai Lookboonmee battled against Sorn Sakwaroon in what was a compelling bout between a pressure fighter and a boxer. Don't expect to see world class skills here but this much better than you'd expect of an all debutant contest.
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The Cracked Planet of Jeff Lindsay
Fractured Surface, Overheated Core:
It May Be Messy, But It's Home
The Ever-Shifting Landscape of the Cracked Planet:
Looks a Lot Like China for the Past Three Years
Once a small-town guy living a quiet life in Appleton, Wisconsin, I experienced massive continental drift recently as a fateful eruption on the Cracked Planet blasted me to China. It's been almost three years in Shanghai now. One of the most fascinating and fortunate periods of my life. The eruption of fate that brought me here was in the form of a job opportunity with a Chinese company where I am guiding their development of intellectual property. One of the many ironies of China is that the nation the West thinks is all about stealing IP is creating more of it now than the United States and is leading the world in many areas of R&D and invention. There are still many problems, but it's terrific to be helping Chinese inventors protect their work and get recognition for their creativity. I love helping our teams be more creative, create better IP, and pursue new product and process opportunities.
Life in Shanghai is far better than I imagined it would be. The people and the culture are wonderful, the city is so fun and convenient, and I've never had such an active and rewarding social life as we have here in Shanghai, all enhanced by the world's best food (especially when my wife cooks).
There's much more to report when I get a breath. Trips to New Zealand, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Italy, and the U.S., plus many parts of China. Crazy! Some of it is documented in my photo galleries.
My work here in China has led to much broader networking and even far more speaking opportunities than I am used to, including many opportunities in China (some are listed on my resume page), along with opportunities in Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and even the United States. US events since coming to China have included being a plenary speaker at the Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting in 2012, and a speaker at the Managing IP forum about IP in China held in Chicago in May 2013. Also had an interesting interview and video appearance for John Schmid's award-winning story, "Paper Cuts" in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, leading to a discussion and sound byte from me on NPR's "All Things Considered" (about 6 minutes into the recording). On Youtube you can also see the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's story on the paper industry in Asia and its impact on Wisconsin, featuring me in a couple of spots.
Below is a photo from Asia Paper 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand, where I got to speak on innovation in the paper industry and take part in a panel on sustainability. The photo below is from the panel event.
Conquering Innovation Fatigue – our book!
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Conquering Innovation Fatigue by Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Cheryl Perkins, and Mukund Karanjikar is published by John Wiley & Sons (2009).
After years of working with innovators and pursuing innovation myself, I felt a need to share a different perspective on the challenges to innovation success. This perspective involves the personal side of innovation, exploring the barriers–including nine major "innovation fatigue factors"–that individual innovators face. We show how to recognize and overcome them. The book considers three different levels of fatigue factors: those involving problems at the individual level (including innovators and those they turn to or work with), at the organizational or corporate level (strategy, culture, incentives, and decision making) and also the external level that includes national policies, regulations, and taxation, with special consideration of university-industry relationships, where especially severe lost opportunity occurs.
Preparing the book Conquering Innovation Fatigue was a rewarding process. This book draws upon many experiences and interviews that I have had, along with those of my co-authors. Our book is aimed at helping anyone who cares about innovation to understand innovation at a personal level.
So who's it for? Anyone who seeks to innovate, drive innovation, or influence innovation. Also, it's the perfect gift for Father's Day, Christmas, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, divorces, fans of patents (even chemical patents), you name it. For more information, see the supporting blog, Innovation Fatigue.
I Used to Talk to Myself:
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Abbreviated Professional Bio
Before that, I was Corporate Patent Strategist at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a terrific consumer products company. I was at K-C for nearly 14 years in the research community there. My work there included working with about 20 IP committees around the company to help guide our IP strategy and tactics; driving IP generation to cope with the threats and opportunities of disruptive innovation (topics like RFID, emerging IT tools, virtual reality, etc.); guiding design-around activities and applying other tools to strengthen our patents; and leading an aggressive effort to use defensive publications as an important tool in our cost-effective IP strategy. I also founded and led a community of practice called the Intellectual Property Chapter. I had 13 great years with K-C. Then, when our Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Vice President, Cheryl Perkins, left to form a start-up company centered around innovation, I would soon recognize an opportunity too exciting to ignore. In 2007 I joined as Director of Solution Development and had four life-changing years there before China called.
I'm a registered US Patent Agent with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. After BYU I was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (originally the Institute of Paper Chemistry). I really loved the academic life and the bright graduate students during my seven years at IPST.
While I've won a few awards during my life, the most important one by far is the "Smartest Husband Ever" (S.H.E.) award granted by the World Federation of Exceptional Women, a monumental honor based on my incredibly wise selection of a spouse. With all due humility, I can only say WOW! When I married Kendra Larson (now Kendra Lindsay), I felt pretty smart, it's true, but it would take years before I fully appreciated what a stroke of genius that was. To be honest, I didn't fully foresee that my incredible young wife would continue blossoming into the breath-taking woman that she is today. I didn't guess that she would organize an entire community and tackle massive barriers to create a successful charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin based on academic excellence (now the Classical School, a public school with over 450 students K-8). I didn't know what a terrific mother she would be, raising four sons whom she would imbue with a passion for excellence and love for life and learning. And how could I possibly have guessed that after four children and almost 30 years of marriage, she would keep getting even more beautiful? The world may call me a genius, but I just think of myself as incredibly lucky. Nevertheless, I'm very proud to be the recipient of the S.H.E. Award. Many thanks to the terrific people of the World Federation of Exceptional Women, and thanks also for allowing me to be the Awards Chairperson for that esteemed organization.
Photography and Other Hobbies
But what is JeffLindsay.com about?
This work began in 1994 as a repository for satire and spoofs as well as serious writings on topics I care about, especially some of my religious writings. I've also added samples from my hobby of photography. My oddball sense of humor (a.k.a. mental illness in denial) is likely to grate some people the wrong way. Sorry about that.
In Feb. 2014 I began using WordPress and the Avada theme to manage some of the material on this site. Consistent with the shifting continents motif of the Cracked Planet, you'll find part of the site is run by WordPress and a lot more is in hand-coded static pages. Yeah, I know, it's a mess. It's cracked and bizarre terrain, always shifting and trembling, but it's home.
Whether it's WordPress or hand coding, everything here was produced using 100% free-range Webmasters. Plus only organic electrons and photons are used with this site. Yes, JeffLindsay.com is organic and completely free of preservatives, meaning that some things are stale, out of date, and full of bugs. If something does look broken, please let me know. It's getting a bit unwieldy, and though I'm overwhelmed with email, I try to listen and respond. Sometimes.
My Other Views
What, another blogger? Yes, sorry, I'm one of those people. I've got my "mixed report" blog, Shake Well Before Serving, here on this site. Over at Mormanity.blogspot.com is my Mormanity blog where I share my views on religion and social issues. The latter is my most developed blogging effort. I also blog occasionally at The Nauvoo Times and at InnovationFatigue.com. Plus I have a blog about Appleton, Wisconsin, that is somewhat on hold as I'm in China for a little while. But I'll be back and still add information.
Some of the issues that I take on in various static pages at JeffLindsay.com include education, religion, social issues, politics, trends in Corporate America, and the most important issue of all, food (in the form of my restaurant reviews for my fabulous little former town, Appleton, Wisconsin). Will I now be reviewing Shanghai food? Whoa, it's so great–where to begin? Email me if you're coming here and I'll share some tips. Some of the best food in the world is here in Shanghai. And so affordable!
Regarding education, I hope parents will demand excellence and refuse fads. If kids aren't learning, they probably aren't being taught–at least not with proven methods. One fad in particular that I take on here is Block Scheduling, where I have provided resources used by many parents, teachers, and even students in resisting a popular but potentially harmful restructuring of schedules in schools. Sounds like an esoteric issue to most people, but it's a hot topic in education. The controversy illustrates quite a lot about some of the problems we face in public schools.
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Now here's a topic that really spooks people. I should warn you that a portion of this site deals with religion. "Mormon? No, please, tell me you're anything but a Mormon!" – to quote one woman I met in Switzerland. Mormons? Latter-day Saints? Yes, I'm an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see LDS.org) and have written a lot about the Church and its beliefs. I take on a lot of common questions and attacks in the section I call Mormon Answers (LDS FAQ). While I answer common questions about my religion and defend my faith, I am not saying that the Church is perfect or has a monopoly on truth. I respect many religions and recognize that we can learn much from others. I also recognize that the Church has plenty of pesky mortals in it, and that means errors and embarrassments from time to time. But I do think we have some amazing things that the world should know about, especially The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Got one? It's a major reason why I am proud to be a member of this Church. My experience with that book has greatly added to my conviction that Jesus Christ is real, that God lives, and that there is a way for men and women to find joy, peace, and meaning in this life and beyond. Oops, there I go, preaching again….
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