2 month ago
Linkorama : Dealing with process and practice around collaboration - The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. those that want it loose and human. I think this is the same as the issue I brought up: technology implemented without acknowledging the human behav
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Linkorama : Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail - And it will be for these reasons in no particular order:
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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8 month ago
Linkorama : 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits - “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Professor Lee - In order for a Socialtext implementation to be successful, the company will require people to use it (opportunity: change management) and the processes to support its use (opportunity: re-engineered, streamlined business processes).
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Socrates and the Children's Party - One of the most successful metaphors for complexity I have ever created was the Childrens' Party story, which has developed with variations (such as the Appreciative Inquiry ending) over the years. Some time ago Christopher Bellavita wrote up a variation
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11 month ago
adamrg : Oh BlackBerry! FCC Carolers Poke Fun at Issues - January 2009 doesn't seem so far away anymore.
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12 month ago
adamrg : How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
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13 month ago
jcgregorio : BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10 - BBC report with responses to the top 10 "climate skeptics" criticisms.
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13 month ago
nelson : Global warming is healthy! - She failed to address damage to the sweater industry
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15 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Mammoth dung melting - Mammoth dung melting: no shit?
deusx : globeandmail.com: Mammoth dung melting - "When the organic matter left behind by mammoths and other wildlife is exposed to the air by the thawing permafrost, his theory runs, microbes that have been dormant for thousands of years spring back into action."
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15 month ago
philgyford : Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy (kottke.org) - A post from 2003 about a guy on a stand who lets customers make their own change.
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15 month ago
jcgregorio : Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years | Environment | The Guardian - Is it me or do they make a linear prediction every year, and every year their linear prediction is exceeded? Guys, have you heard of an exponential curve?
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Jeremy Zawodny : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I: James lays out the rationale behind some of the changes at HOTorNOT
Linkorama : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Go read all three parts
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19 month ago
Linkorama : The Power of Power Laws - Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - SF Chronicle in Trouble?: name a newspaper that isn't...
Linkorama : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - "The most authoritative newsletter covering the newspaper industry issued a gloomy prognosis for the business today and then, tellingly, went out of business.
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jcgregorio : My Date With The Giant: ExxonMobil Responds to Global Warming Report and Allegations | Green Options - Someone must have done a back of the envelope calculation of the tobacco payout and then extrapolated to global warming and choked on that many zeros in a liability column.
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22 month ago
deusx : Warm weather prompts Corpse Flower to bloom early - Yahoo! News - "Unseasonably warm weather may have tricked the world's smelliest plant into blooming in the middle of the northern hemisphere winter, botanists at the Eden Project where the native of Sumatra is housed, told Reuters."
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23 month ago
jkottke : Maybe one of the reasons that the US hasn't embraced global warming as a national priority is because the country is so large that it never experiences collective weather extremes the way Europe does - Maybe one of the reasons that the US hasn't embraced global warming as a national priority is because the country is so large that it never experiences collective weather extremes the way Europe does.
cameron : The Ununited States, When It Comes to the Weather - Why Europe notices climatic change more than America (I've been talking about this story for a few days. Perhaps I should post it.)
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jcgregorio : A letter from The Royal Society to ExxonMobil
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29 month ago
cameron : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - Global warming article refuting last week's WSJ editorial, by the author of a climatology meta-study. Good stuff.
deusx : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - "There is continuing debate in the scientific community over the likely rate of future change: not "whether" but "how much" and "how soon.""
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31 month ago
cameron : Global dimming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - One theory is that jet contrails create enough clouds to reduce the overall light hitting the earth.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Corporate Resistance to Enterprise Web 2.0 - Company executives must be willing to accept a new network architecture paradigm along with its frequent association with "social networking" functionality that many people are still not comfortable with.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Bureacracy Termites: Blogs, Wiki's, and Information Markets - Yet, it strikes me that there are at least three inoculations executives can administer to their organizations to make them more immune to bad bureaucratic processes and, perhaps, unleash the value of self organization.
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