Sunday, June 30, 2002

k-log for your supper. klogging your career. Phil Wolff has some insightful observations on how writing a weblog could benefit your career. [High Context] » This was timely, I'd already thought about putting my weblog address into my resume in a prominent position. My other reaction was "will anyone read it?"  For the kind of jobs I've been going for in the past I have a hunch the answer is probably no. However I've recently (like in the last 3 or 4 days) come to the conclusion that employment must match my core values.  I think for that to happen I need an employer who would read my blog!   [Curiouser and curiouser!] 6:41:16 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

It's all in the runes. Warchalking Runes 1.0. Matt Jones, inventor of "war-chalking" -- hobo-runes that WiFi activists chalk on the sidewalk when they encouter a wireless netwok -- proposes a set of simple symbols. I'd like to point out that while I haven't invented anything quite so fabulous as war-chalking, I did come up with the blogger gang-sign. Hold out your left hand, palm up, then grab your left forearm and make a moue of pain as you massage away invisible RSI cramps -- dude, you're throwing signs! Link Discuss (Thanks, Matt!) [Boing Boing Blog] » Fantastic idea.   I've got my copy in my wallet now. Does anyone know of an Wi-Fi network sniffer that runs on Win32 & supports the Prism/2 chipset?  (Netgear MA401)?   [Curiouser and curiouser!] 4:20:30 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Paradox of the best network. Best Human Network. "The perfect network is perfectly plain, and perfectly extensible.  That means it is also the perfect capital repellant, [which] implies a guaranteed loss to network operators, but a boon to the services on the 'ends'." - Roxane Googin's High Tech Observer as  cited in The Paradox of the Best Network Take a moment to scan The Paradox of the Best Network. We've cited the piece before. The quote, which prompted the Paradox piece in the first place, suggests that the best network is the one that produces the best results for its users (the ends). The Paradox article and the quote are referring to telecom and internet networks. We wonder if it's true and if it has relevance for human networks. [5th Constituency] » It is a good piece to be sure.  To help you decide whether to follow the link and read it here is a 10% summary by Copernic Summarizer Just a few short months ago, it seemed that humanity stood on the edge of a communications revolution. New technology promised to topple barriers of space and time. Prospects of new connectedness recede as capital markets tighten, existing telephone companies back off on capital expenditures, established communications equipment suppliers falter, and ambitious new telecom companies fail. Despite the darkened outlook, new communications capabilities are within reach that will make the current Internet look like tin cans and string. Radically simplified technologies can blast bits a million times faster than the current network at a millionth of the cost. It's not even that the communications revolution has been derailed by inept or self-aggrandizing behavior by incumbent telephone companies and their government regulators. It provokes incumbent companies to mass lawyers and lobbyists to thwart the development of a competitive communications market. Communications networks have a more important job than generating return on investment --- their value comes from their connectivity and from the services they enable. Therefore, the best network delivers bits in the largest volumes at the fastest speeds. In addition, the best network is the most open to new communications services; it closes off the fewest futures and elicits the most innovation. As software engineers say, "Today's optimization is tomorrow's bottleneck." Thus, the best network is a "stupid" network that does nothing but move bits.2 Only then is the network truly open to any and all services that want to use it, no matter how innovative or how unexpected. They know that implementing the new commodity network threatens the very basis of their business. As a result of this simplicity, the Internet has proven to be the most scalable, most robust communications infrastructure humans have ever built. It will boost the economy, open global markets, and make us better informed citizens, customers and business people.   [Curiouser and curiouser!] 4:19:18 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Classification schemes. Classification schemes. I've just stumbled across a paper on faceted classification of information, which talks about applying multiple sets of indexes to [Column Two] » Note to self: Read this paper.   [Curiouser and curiouser!] 4:16:53 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

K-logging becoming the team context. Within our team, we have been surprised at how well the team klog has helped us to have a better understanding of what each of us is currently working on.  [HighContext] via [ColumnTwo]. » I shall definitely be suggesting this approach in future.   [Curiouser and curiouser!] 3:35:10 PM    trackback []     Articulate []