The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Friday, February 20, 2004
InfoWorld: Is social networking just another men?s group?: February 13, 2004: By Jon Udell: Application Development
InfoWorld: Is social networking just another men?s group?: February 13, 2004: By Jon Udell: Application Development:
"Social software as an enabler of business productivity has long been one my abiding passions. Five years ago I wrote a book called Practical Internet Groupware, which is now out of print but still available online. The book drew on my experience as a developer and user of groupware, which I defined simply as technology that helps people work together more effectively in information-rich environments. At the time, such technologies included NNTP newsgroups, Web conferencing, and the precursors to today's Web services. "
NASA Says It’ll Prepare a Rescue Shuttle
NASA Says It’ll Prepare a Rescue Shuttle: "William Parsons, the shuttle program manager, said the rescue shuttle would not have to be sitting on a launching pad. The craft would simply have to be ready to fly within 45 to 90 days, he said, the currently estimated time the space station could support seven extra astronauts with oxygen, food and other supplies."
Competencies
Competencies: "while Exchange and other useful legacy products continue to withstand the erosive forces of Linux and other open-source alternatives, interoperability is the guiding virtue. And if Microsoft wants its Squaw Peaks to continue leveraging their competencies, they'll agree with their customers about the need for interoperability."
Being Heard and Not Herded
Dave Winer: Scripting News: 2/20/2004:
"I went to a seminar at the Kennedy School yesterday doing a postmortem on the Dean campaign. The discussion was led by a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and a political operative who ran a PAC that ran negative ads successfully against Dean in Iowa. He repeated that the only thing that mattered was winning. It didn't occur to me until this morning why that is wrong. Maybe it's true from the candidate's perspective, but it's not true from the voter's. What matters to the voter is getting representated. In the current political system that can't happen. Think about it this way. What if, in 2000, your main issue had been No Nation Building. Easy. Vote for Bush. What does he do his first week in office? Gets ready to do some nation-building. Did he know he would invade Iraq when he was running? You be the judge. In any case, as with most centralized businesses, the voters are a herd, not meant to be heard. At one point I leaned over to one of my colleagues and said 'These guys are the enemy.'"
Correct in so many ways. The point of herd vs heard. And the point of knowing who the enemy is. Those with a job to tear down as opposed to exposing the truth on issues of substance (and I can easily include many aspects of character in my definition of an issue of substance), then you are not doing your fellow mankind a service. You are a gossip-monger appealing to the passive masses not thinking for themselves, as Doc talked a little about today,
"Its enemy is passivism, which is maintained by manufactured entertainment, consumed on a massive scale by citizens of civilized countries around the world. The result is stupidity on a grand scale."
Hey....I got to link to my two favorite bloggers in one post. What a treat!!
ONJava.com: The Eclipse Project Looks Ahead [Feb. 18, 2004]
ONJava.com: The Eclipse Project Looks Ahead [Feb. 18, 2004]:
"Eclipse and SWT are continuing on the same path as Java, but at the next level of abstraction. When Java was introduced, the language and libraries weren't as threatening as the runtime. Now Java developers could write to the Java standard and, at least in theory, not to the operating system. Now Eclipse slides in on top of the JVM and clearly describes itself as a platform for which developers can write plug-ins."
While it still seems like Eclipse is focused on software developers and integration of the tools they need and use, it will be interesting to see where Eclipse goes in linking together entire 'enterprises' of projects: developers, project management team members, AND the customer that the the work is being done for. Will there ever be a place for an Eclipse-based project dashboard tool that customers can utilize to track the status of the work being done for them?
Classroom Resources - free PowerPoint presentations and handouts from Patrick Crispen
Classroom Resources - free PowerPoint presentations and handouts from Patrick Crispen: Now That I Know PowerPoint, How Can I Use It to Teach?
