California Governor Election – Nice essay on various ways to map the California election. Money where you mouth is.
Darwin Packages – Useful for Mac OS X London Steam Museum – One of my favorite museums. Chewbacca Defense – Useful meme. Mass customization – Users enticed to reveal their particulars and a customized product, with customized packageing, at a customized price point is mixed up and shipped to them. Punter Net – (Adult) Yet [...]
ApacheCon is like being a field of locusts. You can almost hear the swarm of chewing away at the future. There is no buisness model, no project plan, no marketing campaign. Just a hordes and hordes of dudes (though interestingly this year there were substantially more women than last) going – “Hum, I wonder what [...]
In a marvelously appropriate off topic posting at Gizmodo the host points out a great article on how cell phones have a corrosive effect on people’s level of engagement with the place they are actually in. It’s a much more sophisticated take on the way that virtual places are in a vicious competition with physical [...]
The #1 measure of sucess for an exchange standard is how many transactions per second take place via that standard. This is of course a pain in the neck for an emerging standard which since for a long period that number is zero. Advocates of a standard will substitute other metrics to both create the [...]
Here is a nice enumeration of the big hits in managerial enthusiasms over the last century. This list is lifted from “Facing up to Management Faddism” Early theories Scientific Management 1900 – 1930 Process; one way to do things, efficency. Administrative Management 1930s division of labor functions, hierarchy. Human Social Factors 1940s Workers’ social needs [...]
This Onion article seems likely to break all records for total incomming links. …it’s like porn to her.
Affecting story, touching, common. Read it. Note: some people in the comments would rather not know. Shame.
I subscribe to the misleadingly named booksfree.com, I enjoy it. They raised my monthly price; so no link for them. I assume they notified me but my spam filters ate the message. I’m sure some vile marketing dudes will start a consultancy to helps firms craft their “service improvement” notices so they are likely to [...]
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