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PING! - Network Overview /// Internet Traffic Report
The Internet Traffic report shows a nice map and a sense of the quality of information flow - packet loss etc. Discovered this while reading about Skype (the VOIP - telophony thing). Odd thing is that this is the second Skype read and post today! Never heard of it yesterday. Something to think about as the product proliferates Items like this are driving my need for more computing power. Along with the article I read about watching HD movies on Windows Media Player 9.0... Need 2.4Mhz system (about 10x faster than currently using!). 
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147 12:30:08 PM
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Love Gibson's writing - not aware of the Blog til now - Time to dig in (or did i just forget?) Wm. Gibson suspends blog to write novel. True to his word, William Gibson has taken a hiatus from blogging to focus on his next novel. This interests me because I have ongoing fiction and other narrative projects of my own and I can't figure out if I'm in the Cory Doctorow school of composting ideas in a blog or the William Gibson school of keeping a lid on the stockpot so it can get up to the boiling point. If nothing else, blogging certainly competes for time and attention with other efforts, writing or no. Plus, the instant gratification may tend to short-circuit the delayed gratification that may be necessary to complete longer coherent works. I'm no expert on discipline and I take forever to complete fiction and even longer essays, so I'm still trying to figure this out. As fun - and important to me - as blogging is, I'd halt it in a moment if I determined it was preventing me from completing other forms of writing. [Radio Free Blogistan]
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146 8:35:19 AM
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Just downloaded the Chris Lydon mp3 interview of Julie Powell - think I'll listen to it before I dive into the actual reading of it (if ever...) Add The Julie Powell to the list (along with Salam Pax) of bloggers whose weblogs have landed them sweet book deals. Congratulations to Julie for conceiving of her brilliant project and then - most importantly - executing it. So now, is the book going to just be a slightly edited rendition of the yearlong cooking project or is it some other kind of derivative work? [Radio Free Blogistan]
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145 8:32:59 AM
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Entering the flow. While one technically savvy core of the blogosphere strives to develop structure and hierarchies and semantic richness, the leading edges of the churning cloud of webloggers is all about flow. One reason why blogging works as well as it does for a growing number of people is that the barriers to entry are low and the requirements are slack. Sure, a well crafted post can pay off with readers, and proofreading is always nice. And while for some a web aggregator is a personal goldmine of archived weblinks to be searched and massaged, data-mined and enshrined for all eternity, for others it's just an ephemeral blur. Here today, gone tomorrow. Whenever I feel that I'm accumulating too big a backlog of links to write about or ideas I want to stick somewhere on the web, I either get on with it or dump the links. Sometimes I find an old file where I jotted down a half-baked idea or three. If it still makes some sense to me, the ideas are sure to come up again. Sometimes I've already covered the big idear on another try. If it's expired, then so be it: It just wasn't meant to be for me to comment on that particular meme du jour. At best, I'm very unselfconscious when writing in this format. Browsing the web, skipping from link to tangential link, grabbing and bookmarkletting items that stick to the velcro in my brain, framing a reply or extension or riff on the quoted or linked-to item from the Web, pushing the post button and resuming my mental grazing, sometimes it all feels like a nice hypnotic alpha state, very similar to the way I feel when I'm painting or working on a puzzle. Letting go is part of surrendering to the flow. Weblogs just aren't a very graspy medium. The archives may grow more concrete, but the living coral fringe of the web is about the next post, not the last one. [Radio Free Blogistan]
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144 8:30:41 AM
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Great post with focus on Knowledge Gaps identified through social network and work context analytics. Denham Grey: Mapping knowledge. Denham Grey: Mapping knowledge Denham Grey is sparking some interesting conversations at his blog, knowledge-at-work. The Knowledge Mapping piece strikes a chord with my own beliefs about "immersion"... To appreciate knowledge gaps, you need to understand the personal networks and work context - This is impossible to get via a survey - it requires immersion I recently took part in a sharing session at the E-learning Competency Center in Singapore. I tried to emphasize the need for Instructional Designers (I think 'Learning Designers' is a more fitting title) to do more "elicitation" during the analysis phase -- meaning that we should spend more time doing some first-hand information gathering and analysis rather than just repurposing raw PowerPoints and Word documents (second-hand material). I drew upon work done by David Snowden and Gary Klein on the difference between 'complex' and 'complicated' phenomena -- complicated acts can be analyzed piecemeal but complex acts like learning have to be experienced holistically.Click here to view a recorded webcast of my presentation. (The second part of my presentation is about linking visual journalism to instructional design). [elearningpost]
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143 8:25:24 AM
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Ideo Method Cards - Interesting concepts from the industrial designers of how they do their work. Not sure if it's just trivia or inspiring - something to think about. Why would I want to have these cards? To give me ideas for how to solve problems... Or to give me inspiration for how to solve problems... Do I need this??? Is there some problem or class of problems that I am facing now? Nothing more than the age old one - How to focus on the right things at the right time for the right amount of time and get great results... Would they help here? Well, what they do is suggest to me(indirectly) is that physical action beyond the expected is an important component of the answer (e.g. make kits, do unusual experiments, engage small teams to explore stuff, BE PLAYFUL)!
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142 8:21:42 AM
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OK I'm rolling on the floor already - I'll should fire off an email to Leland Wallace of Symdex - And of course to Niel Ayer. But maybe they'll just read it here! What's the Opposite of Macgyver?. [The Shifted Librarian]
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141 8:06:13 AM
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Go for it Ray - I hope you get some more value for your innovative work. Weblogs, prior art, and virtual machines.
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140 8:00:27 AM
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Fascinating - Voice over internet being rolled out to all freshman at Dartmouth! Could save KaZaa's butt as their byzantine entity organization structure is revealed (tax havens, and third party managers in third party countries). Absolutely fascinating (I repeat myself). It will probably take off, but it seems to me a bit premature - Wait for the videophone, or just use IM. Who wants to be interrupted all the time while you're using your computer (apparently lots of people who are not me!).
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139 7:40:36 AM
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[Vanguard] Knowledge in a box. Daniel Bobrow from PARC says that Xerox tried to support its repair folks by modeling the machines in software. The repair people were impressed but didn't find it useful. The conclusion: You can't put the right knowledge in the box. (He goes on to explain the social life of information, as fellow PARC-er John Seely Brown put it.) Cool way of putting it. And why did we ever think we could put knowledge in a box? It must have something to do with the fact that we think our human knowledge is in the box of bone that sits atop... [Joho the Blog Commented as follows: Hey, how bout the concept of folks at theBrain. These guys have a sense that information organized round a central thought mimics the "attention" element of your consciousness model. And then jumping or moving to other thoughts is done either because they are linked, or because the attention is distracted to a completely different thought... Thoughts are organized and reorganized by end users (much like real brains) How is it that ones attention shifts? that is the interesting question - perhaps the mystical one - or just the one that has mystified marketing executives;-) But perhaps some way to spider or identify resonant thought threads and weak thoughts (unsticky ones) that are often jumped away from.. That could be interesting!
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138 7:30:29 AM
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Ann, This is a quick note to Ann D. You know who you are if you found this then you get a free drink at the black cow! Your coupon code word is: "Shamalama Ding Dong"
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137 7:15:21 AM
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