Tuesday, February 04, 2003

SAP chief gives up development duties. Chief Executive Hasso Plattner has relinquished his role guiding technology development at the German software company, an SAP representative confirms. By Alorie Gilbert, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 4:53:00 PM    comment []

Grok the Milieu. Alex Havalais wrote up a meeting we had at RIT last week to discuss a possible collaboration.  (I've been heads-down preparing a talk called "Field Research in Information Ecology"  presented yesterday.)    He and Mike seem to have taken to a metaphysically-correct paraphrase of "understand the space"  (which is to say, who knows if "blogspace" is a "space?"  Is "understanding" the real goal? What about visualizing?  What about describing, characterization etc.?   Hence... Grok the Milieu Went to Rochester to meet up with Liz Lawley, Jon Schull, Mike Axelrod, and Steve Jacobs and talk about the proposal for a grant to study microcontent/blogs. We threw around some ideas....  http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000240.html#000240 [Jon Schull's Weblog] 1:13:59 PM    comment []

From dive into mark, Assume we have a can opener. "I?m working up to a point here, and it?s this: technology is not the problem here. People are the problem." He's half right its the rules together with the enviornment that governs norm formation in a knowledge society. Contriversy is a big part of norm formation. 1:00:36 PM    comment []