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13 August 2002 |
This is a good thing: submission should help put to rest danger of competing standards says Infoworld [InfoWorld: Top News] (and our first test of the news aggregator)
5:34:13 PM 
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Ray on maximising "return on connection", something that the social network theorists would like:
it has been my goal to explore what lies at the intersection between people, organizations, and technology. To attempt to utilize technology - to mold it, to shape it into a form such that it can help organizations to achieve a greater "return on connection" from employee, customer, and partner relationships, and to help individuals to strengthen the bonds between themselves and those with whom they interact - online. Because - empirically - collaborative technology has substantive value, in reducing the cost of coordination, in providing shared awareness across differences in space and time.
And on not fighting human nature:
But therein lies the rub: getting people to do it. We spent years and years at Lotus trying to convince people of the "higher order" value of collaborative processes, sharing, and KM. And I learned the hard way that fighting what appear to be natural organizational and social dynamics is very tough. Which is why eMail is the most popular collaboration tool on the planet: it works the way that people naturally want to work. And which is why Groove is built upon a client-side, personally empowering "email model" than an "app server" model. Mobile, instant, ad hoc, private. Effective collaboration tools strike a balance between personal need/behavior and collective/organizational need.
5:02:32 PM
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A Continental Research survey (no link) asked people to name UK mobile operators. The results:
- 67% Orange (no surprises there)
- 54% Vodafone (though can anyone spell it?)
- 47% BT Cellnet (now called O2)
- 33% One2One (now called T-Mobile)
- 24% T-Mobile (£100m budget)
- 20% O2 (£150m budget)
Unsurprisingly, the mobilecos in question are disputing the findings.
2:00:32 PM
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In comparison, T-Mobile (One2One) is going for £20/month flat-rate. See also The Guardian's story. Related: FT's article on preventing/managing "super-distribution" of MMS content, which points out that only content owners are hurt if operators allow subscribers to pass on MMS content [via BBJ]. ... Which actually misses the point of MMS (and SMS): the market for subscribing to content will be miniscule compared to that for creating and passing on camera-phone pictures, person-to-person.
1:59:53 PM
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No actual colours to look at, but savour Color Marketing Group's descriptions: gingko, "the botanical green of dried grasslands, bridging the fresh excitement from mustard greens with the relaxing feel of a forest's treasured mosses", and moon shadow, a "hueful neutral"...
1:58:37 PM
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Whilst 6-S helped IBM optimise its processes for building networking equipt and hard drives, EMC was inventing RAID and Cisco routers.
8:50:24 AM
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number 7, and the best: if you build it, they will use it
8:40:27 AM
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US Government project to protect a radioactive waste-disposal site for 10,000 years by marking the site to deter inadvertent human interference. [old story, via Plastic, Slashdot]
Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP [Waste Isolation Pilot Plant] site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion
The question becomes: how do we communicate across a large cultural space/time. This report's goals are similar to one submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the early 80s by Thomas Sebeok. He believed that spoken and written languages were likely to decay to the point of incomprehensibility over a long period of time. Ultimately, the solution he endorsed was to form a self-perpetuating "atomic priesthood" (viz Beneath the Planet of the Apes) that could pass down the knowledge from generation to generation. Related things:
8:39:42 AM
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The story of Flash by its creator. "As I looked for challenges beyond Lego ships, I dreamed of architecture. What greater achievement for man is there than creating great buildings?"
8:35:49 AM
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