These are my links for December 4th from 03:26 to 03:26:
You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them.
Tags: Breadcrumbs, Mozilla Labs, software
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These are my links for November 20th from 02:18 to 15:07:
Tags: Breadcrumbs, learning, software, wordpress
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Stafford Beer 1926 – 2002
If, as will become the dominant theme of this blog, the Purpose of a System is What it Does ( POSIWID) what does it mean to mankind that so many of our systems appear broken to even unseasoned observers?
Stafford Beer of course had a lot to say on this subject in his many works but one example that often haunts me comes from his work of prose Chronicles of Wizard Prang.
Tags: cybernetics, design, freedom, POSIWID, software, systems
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Tags: aesthetics, archetypes, consciousness, cybernetics, design, discipline, education, experience, feedback, feeling, goals, holons, humour, ignorance, inference, insight, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, learning, maxims, memory, metaphor, model, pattern matching, patterns, POSIWID, predictions, presentations, problem solving, self-awareness, semantics, semiotics, skills, software, synthesis, systems, teaching, thinking, VSM
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