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Category Archives: open source
Searching for Alternate Routes
Monday, May 11, 2009
RNA viruses may well be the ultimate r-selected species. The life cycle of an RNA virus includes a few steps. Infecting the cell, coopting the machinery of the cell, making copies of its self, assemble those copies into viral particles. Then the offspring need to escaping the cell, avoid the immune system, and find a [...]
Git
Friday, April 10, 2009
I’m really blown away by how nice a bit-o-work git is. What Eric von Hippel taught me works both ways. Real innovation requires close contact between a interesting problem and talent. When you encounter innovation it signals an interesting problem and engaged talent. Ignore the story told. Look for that problem and why the talent [...]
The No Carrot, No Stick Zone
Sunday, July 13, 2008
This talk by Clay Shirky is a basicly the first bit of his book performed live. He cut from the book the suggestion that the phase transition we are going thru is going to lead to chaos. I don’t recall hearing before the delightful idea that Institution rely of carrots and sticks, but that if [...]
Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Sam is doing the hard job, striving to find a workable framework, a firm vocabulary, but grows suspicious that the watery tart will have the last laugh.
Better data, fewer customers
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Here’s an amusing business tactic: lock out the customers. You know the drill. You visit the website, log-in, and the vendor inserts an extra page forcing you to provide your missing zip code, or what ever. “Our data quality is more important than your time.” So this company, a health club, locked their patrons out [...]
The Smallest are the Biggest Customer
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Quite a few times over the last months I’ve found myself talking to somebody with a lot of customer relationships to manage. Actually it is more accurate to say a lot of relationships. As a certified power-law nutter I presume that some of these relationships are deeper than others and the distribution is highly skewed. [...]
Sharing Cell Phones
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
In Yochai Benkler’s essay “Sharing Nicely” about large class of institutions where people solve problems by sharing rather than market clearing or regulatory frameworks he blocks out a rough model of what enables that them; e.g. a large pool of excess capacity (empty seats in the car, idle cycles on your PC or your head) [...]
Bill starts a dating service
Friday, July 20, 2007
I had the fun a long time ago of being the first bidder on this auction: Today Bill told a bit more of the story. See, something else happened: During the sale dozens of people contacted me by email and telephone. They weren’t seeing it as a joke. They were anxious to bid. They regretted [...]
Craft v.s. Art.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
This is a very elegantly written posting. Most people are not aware of the depths of the argument that between the fine craft establishment and the dominate fine art elite. I used to think about that debate more; but I’m pleased to note something about it. Fine art is at it’s core about scarcity; fine [...]