Wednesday, September 11, 2002

After staring at my computer screen for five minutes, and beginning to feel both bored and confused - where should I start.  Go to email? Go to my "thebrain"? Launch a spreadsheet I'm working on? Take a shower?  It occured to me that I had not been on the blog for days! and that I should take a look at the news aggregator. Right move.  The real news is dull as dishwater 9/11 stuff.  We all feel it, but I'm sick of it.  It does not encourage or motivate or do anything but paralyze to dwell on yet one more personal story from that day!  Time to keep moving. The news aggregator was great.  It reminded me that there are interesting people out there thinking interesting thoughts - and some of them are blogging about them!  It was both entertaining, and informative and engaged my intellect instead of my greif!  It is much more enabling to focus on this kind of stuff! (to sound psychobabbly - but its true!) So remember this - write it down!  When you've reached the end of your interest in news, or the stuff on your computer, expand your horizons by logging into other's thoughts - others whose ideas have caught your attention in the past and engaged your brain! Now as to the name, News Aggregator isn't quite right.  Sounds boring as Gretta's gruel.  Need to get a handle on what it really is - a snapshot or window into the minds of others, or at least things that caught their attention long enough for them to engage in writing or commenting or linking... Need more thought here... 8:36:40 PM

From Ray Ozzie's weblog (I do like his thinking...and he's a neigbor!): (I strongly recommend the book if you haven't yet read it - full text online since late last year. "It takes networks to fight networks; whoever masters the network form first and best will gain major advantages." In it, you'll find example after example of edge-based, largely decentralized organizational forms and how they compete, e.g. how swarming tactics can be used to overwhelm adversaries. In reading it, I gained a much better appreciation of the challenge before us in combating highly-decentralized organizations - from al-Qaeda to drug-smuggling cartels. The premise that hierarchies have a difficult time fighting networks is compelling.) 8:14:20 PM

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