Posted in delicious on 27 February, 2008 | No Comments »
The downside of a good idea
Although the method is somewhat theoratical, the research presented here is pretty interesting. Fully connected social networks are able to simple problems better than ’small world’ networks, which in turn were better at complex problems.
(tags: collaboration intelligence collective innovation socialnetworking strategy)
Posted in delicious on 26 February, 2008 | No Comments »
Rewiring the mind (Nicholas Carr)
Not so surprising: the web is changing our information foraging techniques. The part that I’m missing is what the context is of the proposed behaviour. It seems like people turn into shallow information gatherers, but do they really never go deep? I do!
(tags: internet research information strategy education)
Better than free (Kevin [...]
Posted in delicious on 22 February, 2008 | No Comments »
Why We Banned Legos
Amazing story about a school which banned Lego from the classroom to teach their kids something about power, ownership, collectivity and consensus. It’s interesting to see how the kids were taken on a journey from an oligarchy to a democracy.
(tags: psychology politics children education change lego)
Posted in delicious on 19 February, 2008 | No Comments »
How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot
Business smart…
(tags: tie howto tutorial video)
Posted in delicious on 15 February, 2008 | No Comments »
Popfly and Pipes (Jon Udell)
Short but thorough comparison of popfly (Microsoft) and pipes (Yahoo) as mash-up creators. My choice goes for pipes, as it is more part of ‘the cloud’ as Jon Udell calls it. With Pipes it’s RSS ‘all the way down’…
(tags: yahoo microsoft mashups popfly pipes)
Posted in delicious on 14 February, 2008 | No Comments »
Art, Science and Appearance in HDR [PDF download]
Interesting article about the history of HDR in science and art. Normally a lot of pictures that claim to be HDR are just horrible renderings that have nothing to do with HDR. This article gives some clear explanation of what HDR is.
(tags: photography hdr art science history)
Posted in delicious on 13 February, 2008 | No Comments »
How Technology Almost Lost the War (Wired)
In the latest war in Iraq the US made use of a high-tech network supporting the troops. However, as it turned out social networks are a major part of the equation in winning this war. Succes is only possible by understanding the locals and their customs.
(tags: socialnetworking iraq technology [...]
Posted in delicious on 12 February, 2008 | No Comments »
The Personal MBA
For anyone that would like to do an MBA, but hasn’t the money or time, this might be an option. It’s an MBA course designed to do in your own time. A number of relevant books are listed and a forum is set up to meet other students. You just pay the books.
(tags: [...]
Posted in delicious on 11 February, 2008 | No Comments »
More on the Evolution towards the Knowledge Economy (Irving Wladawsky-Berger)
It is clear that in a knowledge economy the (customer) service level is very important. However, in an economy based on knowledge the population will have be more empowered, therefor demanding higher (quality) level services.
(tags: professional services economics business amazon)
Text Analytics Solutions (ClearForest)
The Firefox plugin mentioned [...]
Posted in delicious on 4 February, 2008 | No Comments »
10 Tips to Retain More of What You Read Online
Some nice tips if you process a lot of information from the web. I like the idea of mapping out the information that I find.
(tags: information elearning internet productivity)
