Archives for March, 2006
I know where I want to go…are we there yet?
Friday, March 31st, 2006
On the Creation of a Microsoft Clock The Ballmer brainwashing quote has already gotten a bunch of attention, but I’m interested in the interview for a different reason than most folks: [Ballmer] It’s going to take an innovative proposition. In five years are people really going to carry two devices? One device that is their [...]
Second ‘verse, same as the first…
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Being Some Notes on Life First Life Genetics will out, it appears. My 15 month old daughter spent much of yesterday evening dancing in a goofy and uncoordinated fashion to the music of the Pixies and Johnny Cash, and then trying to grab the beer out of my hand between songs. I didn’t think she’d [...]
Talk Amongst Yourselves…
Monday, March 27th, 2006
…after reading something from Don Marti and something from Tom Evslin. Just for the fun of it, you might also spend some time thinking about the similarities, differences, and overlap between power, influence, and authority. Technorati Tagging: futuretech musings social
Agile Business: just to be clear…
Friday, March 17th, 2006
Since Scoble linked to it, this short post on an HP printer firmware development group getting a 3.4x productivity increase through Agile is likely to get some attention. I’m in the process of writing about how even a Methodology skeptic can have lots of positive things to say about Agile…but even so, it worries me [...]
Lunchtime Musings: playsh
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
playsh, which is described as “a narrative-driven “object navigation” client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys” is pretty retro-MUD-alicious, but it just doesn’t measure up when compared to the classic: doom as a system administration tool. Technorati experiment: [...]
Micro Persuasion: Institutional Power Declining, Forrester Says
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Steve Rubel’s post on a new Forrester Research report. Very interesting, but “institutional power declining” seems to me like a debateable take-away. Check the logos in The Many forms Of Social Computing and consider how many of them either are Institutions or have been acquired by Institutions within the last year or two. I’d propose [...]
Agile Business: The One True List
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Being the first part of…oh, I don’t know…probably two or three posts over the next couple of weeks on the topic of “Agile” being worthwhile even if it is a “Software Development Methodology,” and also why it’s not really a development Methodology so much as it’s a business Methodology. Matt has already posted a couple [...]
Lunchtime Musings: Broadband Wall Math
Friday, March 10th, 2006
Between a whole slew of recent posts on Techdirt (many linked from this one that appeared yesterday) and this Telephony Online article that I just came across yesterday, I’ve had broadband on the brain of late. [ You don't have to read all the linked posts, but at least check out the TO article. ] [...]
