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Comment on Scobleizer: Half Life of an Online Conversation by Bricoleur

Bricoleur — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:07:33 +0000

Some second thoughts:
I’d like to see the ability to find conversation not only by date range/# of comments/likes (as Robert Scoble has suggested for FriendFeed) but also a measure of diminution- how quickly the # of comments is diminishing with each successive “re-incarnation” of a topic; if a conversation important enough that it is brought back to life and then generates a large number of new comments when compared to its original count it is more likely to be of lasting interest than one that got a lot of reaction at the time but no one found it worthwhile to go back and add to.

Comment on Lean at Home: Some New Year Resolutions by Bricoleur

Bricoleur — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:51:52 +0000

McCain finally showed up on the Lettermen show – after failing to have a positive impact, and when asked by David: “Now what exactly happened?” McCain replies “I screwed up”

Comment on Breadcrumbs for November 20th through 15:24 by Bricoleur

Bricoleur — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:01:15 +0000

I use evernote on three different platforms in quite different ways. On my Tablet I use the Windows desktop version (original) to gather project and research notes. I use the Web version for general gathering of web clips. And, finally, I have just started using the iPhone version as part of my own schedule-diary-system (subsumes the functionality of GTD systems)

Comment on Designing Freedom & The Purpose of Education by Bricoleur Systems « Cybernetics

Bricoleur Systems « Cybernetics — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:48:39 +0000

[...] what does it mean to mankind that so many of our systems appear broken to even unseasoned observers?Bricoleur Systems, Sep [...]

Comment on A Brewing …. by Bricoleur

Bricoleur — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:35:53 +0000

I just stumbled across another reference indicating that the “mysterious” JGR Aquisitions was a subsidiary of Novell

Comment on Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program – Joel on Software by Bricoleur Systems » Blog Archive » A review of the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:07:04 +0000

[...] a previous post I noted that Joel Spolsky is putting together a management training program for his firm that will [...]

Comment on Oh what a dream… by Bricoleur

Bricoleur — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:00:11 +0000

Your choice – join the conversation on my Tangler Tangle or just post your observation here!

Comment on WARNING – Silos of Information! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:35:15 +0000

Think of Airline tickets… from almost the beginning of international flights you could book on one airline for transport that included “legs” on another airline… this continued into the early days of batch computer systems, through the days of online but non networked systems through to today's richly interconnected network systems.
Think of international credit and debit card systems. Travel virtually anywhere and you can use your card from home. Richly interconnected systems, virtually completely interoperable but certainly not from one vendor.
In my mind a one vendor “solution” when the “right” way of doing things has yet to be determined is a recipe for hardening of the system … if it happens through government fiat (or bribe) look for it to lead to lock-in to unworkable systems that are almost impossible to change …. this can be the only result if “standardization” comes as a result of single vendor lock-in.