I seem to be spending more and more time reading The Shifted Librarian for Jenny’s insight into what is happening right now in the world of wires…. One particularly interesting current piece is this about how “Google boxes” are having the effect that “two people who have never intentionally linked to each other are each generating traffic for the other”. This is a great example of how complex behaviour can emerge from apparently simple systems…
_ I looked into those big, sad, soulful, hurting eyes and I wanted to give him a hug. People who say the internet is a geeky, meaningless side show to life have no idea. This stuff matters. Over at The Obvious?
Interesting new book on the horizon (only in draft at present) – The Narrative Angle – The Seven Most Valuable Forms of Organizational Storytelling. Preview. The author, Steve Denning is former director of knowledge management at the world bank. The Seven Highest-value Forms of Organizational storytelling: Story to ignite transformational action Storytelling to grow community Storytelling to share knowledge Storytelling to transmit values Storytelling to say who you are Storytelling to transform a narrative dynamic
Share website content with ASPRSS SkippingDotNet XML-RPC programming with ZOPE
I referred to Gary Turner’s momentary lapses of dilution® a day or two ago in the piece on rageboy‘s visit to London… but I’ve only just been introduced to his alter ego Mike Golby at Pagecount. I don’t know what he’s on but it’s very good….
Jon Udell picks up on Peter Drayton asking the question “What is an application” and expands our thinking by asking an obvious question – (having set up an anti-spam inbox rule in Outlook) ..I don’t see a quick way to transfer this behavior to Larry’s instance of Outlook. The Outlook rules, when exported, are binary, not nice readable/editable ASCII like Netscape’s exported rules. In any case, even in Netscape, there’s no easy way to create this behavior, name it, export it as a service, and enable someone else to acquire it with a click.
Thought it was time to trawl through some of my compatriots … here are some that caught my eye on the way … LinkMachineGo, Wherever You Are, Pete Ashton Dot Com, not.so.soft, Interconnected, feeling listless. And last but not least for its very British (in)sanity A letter from the Olde Countrie by “Group Captain Lionel Mandrake” (aka Steve Bail)
LINKMACHINEGO.COM picks up Texting via wood s lot thus “I read about Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Ashcroft’s approval ratings and I wonder about my fellow citizens. I wonder if there isn’t some collective human core drive toward conservatism. I mean conservatism on its most basic level: fear of change. These familiar white men — familiar both because they’re clones of what we’ve been acculturated to perceive as power, and familiar literally, it’s the exact same people, the same handful, the plutocracy — are they somehow reassuring big daddies, distant and tight-lipped, security conscious and faintly disapproving, a little out of touch, a little authoritarian and secretive, deals out of earshot and quiet phone calls, a potential for real anger, but usually genial and a little hokey; they want what’s best for us, they know what’s best, because they’re father?
A stress management expert wants the US to have a special day when people are banned from being grumpy. She wants people to be fined for frowning and to wear special hats when they’re caught being unhappy. (via EVHEAD)
The secret was an April Fool, so may not still be there…. Via Seth Godin (yes the ideavirus man)