links for 2005-04-29
FT.com / Columnists - Richard Epstein: Why open source is unsustainable and a response (tags: OpenSource)...
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April 29, 2005
Open Source Government
Perhaps the Swiss have a viable governance model for open source and open content initiatives?
April 25, 2005
links for 2005-04-25
e-Literate: flat vs threaded discussions Hypothesis: "threaded discussion interfaces lead to far less synthesis in educational conversation than flat interfaces do (tags: Knowledge_Management) Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick) Good idea refreshingly presented in collegehumor.com style....
3 hurdles to community formation
Following on from last post about trying to work some of the benefits of internet CoPs into intranet CoPs, there's some interesting reading over at Shawn Callahan's Anecdote blog. Shawn did some work on this while at IBM (as far...
Invisible Helpers
Andy Boyd makes a great point on anonymity and giving in commercial and non-commercial CoPs. While looking around the Lego Robot Kit CoP, he said he was "amazed at how much effort some people go to to help others (some...
April 23, 2005
links for 2005-04-22
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Get mapping The way forward for low cost geodata seems to be a bike and a £25 handset (tags: Grid_Thinking) www.londongreenmap.org where to recycle in London (tags: Green Maps) LLRX.com - Using a Wiki...
April 22, 2005
Diversity and Problem Solving
On our naturally under-performing in groups
Mashed Up
On Aleatoric Sugar
April 20, 2005
Amazon Customer Service
At last, the UK Amazon Customer Service numbers
April 18, 2005
Doing what counts
From John Seddon, a business psychologist with a knack of putting things succinctly:"People do what you count, not what counts. Targets always make things worse."...
Thinking things are different
Wall Street financier Sir John Templeton has some wise words:The four most dangerous words in investment are: "It's different this time"Wonder how much that applies to social software and organisational behaviours?...
The Mathematics of Love
On Gottman and his love lab.
Naked communication
On F.X.Enderby and being naked without mechanically mediated communication.
April 7, 2005
links for 2005-04-07
Questionnaire for KM Readiness PWC/Sveiby owned Collaborative Climate Readiness survey (tags: Knowledge_Management)...
April 4, 2005
Outgrowing the Organisation
Seems to me that individuals are increasingly outgrowing the organisation. Expectations are aimed at fuller, richer lives, at travel, at the pursuit of interests, and at freedom of routine. And we expect organisations somehow to support us in this. Put...
Parliament, Councils and Online Communities
On a recent debate in Parliament about online communities, support, and vested interests.