I'm still digging out from last weekend, which I spent in Boston
celebrating my 25th reunion of my business school class. Friday night
we had dinner at the Top of the Hub in the Prudential Center with a
view of Fenway Park where the Red Sox were beating the Yankees.
At
HBS you spend your entire first year with [...]
Bill Ives finds a nice report on the use of new technology within the intelligence community. You will need to register with the Social Science Research Network (for free) in order to download the report, which is a PDF file, but it’s worth the trouble
The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a [...]
Happy Birthday to Jack Vinson. And he offers us a most delightful present indeed.
Begin the Screen
Joho the blog points us to
Susan Crawford has put together one of the most delightful five minutes I've spent on line in a while.
p.s. Happy birthday to me.
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- jackvinson (jackvinson@jackvinson.com) [Knowledge Jolt with Jack]
I posted something recently talking about how I am using my laptop as a test bed for various Web 2.0 ideas ( Experimenting with Web 2.0 on my laptop ). Several people have asked for more details on that environment.
Here is what I am running today:
Hardware: IBM T41 with 1GB of memory [...]
Marc has always done superb work and this is no exception. Full of
ideas you can adapt to all kinds of design problems. It is also an
excellent example of what you can do with presentation materials if you
are willing and able to take the time (and are as talented as Marc).
Designing for Experience.
This presentation
made by [...]
Some interesting point-counterpoint on the relative merits of
organizational scale, but I can’t help but smile at the notion the 80+
employees constitutes “big.” To me the more interesting question here
is how low we’ve been able to drive the scale of micro-businesses such
as 37Signals who are able to have impact and presence far beyond their
size because they [...]
While on the subject of lists, this is a nice introduction into what
makes for a good checklist coupled with good arguments about why you
would want to make more frequent use of them to begin with.
How to Create a Better Checklist.
Checklists are great to develop consistency and realiability in
accomplishing routine as well as emergency procedures. But, [...]
Merlin Mann offer two excellent posts on the unexpected subtleties of crafting a good to-do list (Part 1, Part 2).
While for many people (like my wife), this is a completely natural
process, I frequently struggle with it. Mann is full of good advice and
understands how our bad habits interfere. This will certainly help me
in crafting [...]
Good insights, as always, from John Seely Brown about learning.
New Learning Environments for 21st Century.
New Learning Environments for 21st Century(.pdf)
- I really enjoyed reviewing this presentation. John Seely Brown's view
of learning in today's society is very similar to what I've been
advocating about connectivism.
In particular, he presents the urgent need to rethink how we [...]
Who knew I was so avant garde? As I understand Kottke's proposal, the
next step on the way to the WebOS is to run a web server on your
desktop so that you can get access to data on your local machine by way
of your browser and effectively erase the distinction between data out
on the web and [...]
