5th ConstituencyFrom Sumser and the interbiznet Greenhouse: A Deeper Faster LookBlog Notes 2 - A Dozen Things We Know- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Blogging is in a primitive form. The heavy users only know that it is possible. "Why" is a question that awaits a claifying "How" Here are a dozen things we know. Personal publishing has always moved from the grassroots out to society and blogging is an advancement in personal publishing. The technical ground beneath "blogging" (web services, net services or whatever you want to call it) is moving from the grass roots out (and not from the top down as Oracle, Sun, IBM and Microsoft...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/17.html#a47 The Lines- (Found July 15, 2008 ) In the most abstract case, technical people tend to work in a linear process, marketing people work in circles. (Before the email floods in, we know that technical processes are often described as iterative and that marketing people in fact usually work in a linear direction.) That's why we described the proposition as "the most abstract case." The distinction is important as we navigate this plateau in the development of capacities for our industry. Although it looks like a lack of technical..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/18.html#a54 Blog Notes 4: Categories- (Found July 15, 2008 ) No Audience is Interested in Everything You Produce XML gives Weblogs the capacity to be organized into categories. It's good news and bad. When authoring an article (or one of those littler bloglets), the author is confonted immediately with a series of usability questions like: If I put this piece in several categories, does that reduce the meaning of each category If the piece is on the home page and in a category, why would anyone ever go to both If the piece is only in a category and not..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/20.html#a55 Best Human Network- (Found July 15, 2008 ) "The perfect network is perfectly plain, and perfectly extensible. That means it is also the perfect capital repellant, which implies a guaranteed loss to network operators, but a boon to the services on the 'ends'."- Roxane Googin's High Tech Observer as cited in The Paradox of the Best Network Take a moment to scan The Paradox of the Best Network. We've cited the piece before. The quote, which prompted the Paradox piece in the first place, suggests that the best network is the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/20.html#a56 Background Checking On The Increase- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Worker background checks raise privacy concerns. Privacy Digest The solution Why not worker generated background certification under the direct control and ownership of the employeehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a65 Customer Success, Not Bug Free Code- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The response I hear to the question of why software projects fail is that the customer did not plan well or didn't delegate well or made poor decisions. Is that really fair Shouldn't the company selling a product that costs millions of dollars shoulder some responsibility for its ultimate usefulness Siebel: Absolutely. This is the point I'm making. We don't see it as our obligation to simply deliver bug-free software. We do whatever it takes to make sure the customer succeeds. So absolutely, I..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a64 Why Companies Fail- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Fortune. Why companies fail John Robb's Radio Weblog Might be called: identifying sources of talent and knowing what to say.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a63 Teacher Shortage- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Technology: Video-conferencing lessons to help teacher shortages. 02:12 ET - Ananova NewsBlip.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a62 Recruiting Inventors- (Found July 15, 2008 ) To attract some of the world&146;s top inventors to participate, Myhrvold and Jung not only want to compensate them well but also aim to tap into the sheer joy that inventive people draw from their work&151;an emotion that they believe has largely been missing in corporate labs for a long time. As Myhrvold puts it, &147;Invention is so exhilarating that most true inventors would do it for free.&148; See invention factory . Memex 1.1http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a61 Balance Sheets- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The basics of understanding a company: Decoding a Balance Sheet. The Motley Foolhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a60 |