Ed Taekema - Road Warrior CollaborationA blog looking at business communication, knowledge management, scripting tools, OS technology news and other things of interest to mobile tech workers. As I find interesting news this will also contain pointers to thoughts related to configuration managment, change management and general software development.Add The Wisdom of Crowds to your Reading List- August 19, 2004 Sounds like a another great book for the reading list. From How To Save The World: James Surowiecki's remarkable book The Wisdom of Crowds has caused me to re-think many of my ideas, and one of those ideas is the value and importance of experts. The concept of 'pathfinder' customers outlined above assumes that, to some extent, these ahead-of-the-curve customers are experts in their business and hence can provide expertise to your business above and beyond what the 'average' customer...http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/08/09.html#a835 Some Python Aspect Oriented Programming Links- August 18, 2004 Python Aspect Oriented Links: Lightweight Python AOP This introduces a Python module which implements one essential concept in Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)... The aspects module provides a function called wrap_around. Pythius The Pythius package high level AOP support. See here for examples. Aspects aspects is a python module that enables Aspect Oriented Programming in Python. For now, it provides a set of ready-to-use aspects and an easy way to create your...http://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/2004/08/18.html#P287 The Decline of Hierarchies from Sun's CEO- August 17, 2004 Jonathon Swartz points to this summary and copy of the the latest column (via Robert Paterson) from David Kirkpatrick which captures some of the panel interaction from from Fortune's Brainstorm Conference. Technology enables a reduction in transaction costs. It's changing the way people collaborate across companies and across continents. In the past what corporations did internally were those things that had higher transaction costs than doing it externally. Now that dynamic has...http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040731#breaking_down_hierarchies Brain Hacks - One for the Reading List- August 5, 2004 Matt is writing a book code named Brain Hacks for the O'Reilly Hack series that looks very interesting. Here is the quick summary: 100 practical and understandable probes into the design quirks of the brain, concentrating on the sensory and motor functions and their coordination. An unusual presentation about how our brain works. He goes on to say: And this is the motivation: To get where it is, the brain has made some fascinating design decisions. The layering of...http://interconnected.org/home/2004/08/04/im_writing_a_book |