idea of a variation/subset of the World Wide Web which has fewer of the ugly bits (Small World) (more)

All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful... sometimes (more)

Jason Kerwin: Nothing Scales. I recently posted a working paper where we argue that appointments can substitute for financial commitment devices. (more)

Theory Of Constraints, Agile Software Development writer... (more)

Michael Watkins on not getting tenure, and what's happening at MBA programs. I have been wondering for some time: To what extent are business schools producing insights of use to practicing managers? Is the investment that they are making in research justified in terms of results? Is the HBS (Harvard Business School) brand at risk? I believe that the answers to these questions are, respectively, little, no, and very much so. I further believe that this is the result of the "capture" of business schools (including unfortunately and increasingly HBS) by discipline-oriented academics who consume more value from their institutions than they create for them... Go too far in the direction of practice and you become a consulting/training company. Go too far in the direction of academic respectability and you become irrelevant. The latter has been the fate of many of the business schools at leading universities - they rarely produce cutting-edge thinking that impacts business practice (take a look at the top 250 books on management at Barnes and Noble and note how few are written by business school academics.) Jim Collins, the author of Good To Great, for example, was essentially fired by Stanford... In an HBS faculty meeting a year or so ago, the then Senior Associate Dean in charge of Executive Programs gave a sobering presentation on the state of HBS's open enrollment executive program offerings. The gist of the presentation, as I heard it, was that HBS was attracting fewer and fewer managers from leading US companies in growth industries and more from (1) non-leading companies in stagnant industries, and (2) international participants who continued to see the HBS brand as very attractive. To me, this was a clear warning sign of creeping erosion of the HBS brand...

Peter Schwartz has a new (June2003) book Inevitable Surprises (ISBN:1592400272). (more)

Number Two Son is doing NaNoWriMo for school (TAG). Being in 4th grade, his target is only 20k words. (more)

A nice profile of the TAG programs in the Barrington Il Public School system.Worse than students not being challenged or interested in school, the teachers and administrators agree, is students assuming that learning always will come easily. Julie says that bright students who haven't been nurtured or challenged by a gifted program at an early age often come undone when they enter high school or college and the academic load suddenly becomes demanding. Georgia Nelson says that when students learn without having to try, one consequence is a belief that trying to learn is a sign of Failure... Currently, 760 students in third to eighth grade are in the extended services program, which includes extended art classes. Keeping track of the number of gifted students at Barrington High School becomes difficult, she says, because of the overlap among honors, honors gifted, and Advanced Placement classes. The only real gifted program is the grades 3-5 program, which has ~50 kids total, out of ~3k kids in the district in those grades.

This is a copy of an email I just received from Number Two Son's fifth-grade (Elementary School) teacher - this is Barrington Il's Public School TAG program. I think it captures the awesomeness of the Self Contained program there... (see also 2009-10-15-BarringtonTag) (more)

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My research investigates the intersection of computing, human-system interfaces, and emancipatory politics. I am interested in the potential of computing as a medium for thought, as a tool for collective action, and as a means of emancipation. My current focus is basic research into the nature of digital organisation, developing theoretical toolkits to improve shared infrastructure, and applying this research to the design of new systems and protocols which support the self-organisation of knowledge and computational artifacts. https://www.orionreed.com/ (more)

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe". It is a common, informal name for a somewhat broad federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages. By running social network software that supports a standard set of protocols called ActivityPub, independently run servers can connect to the Fediverse,[1] allowing its users to follow and receive short messages from each other, regardless of which particular ActivityPub server implementation they are running. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse See esp Mastodon. See related IndieWeb. (more)

aka Facebook Threads, Meta Threads. Threads is an online social media and social networking service operated by Meta (Facebook) Platforms. The service features integration with Instagram and users must register for Threads with an Instagram account. Functionally it is similar to X: users can post text, images, and videos, as well as interact with other users' posts through replies, reposts, and likes. The application is available on iOS and Android devices; the web version offers limited functionality and requires a mobile app to be installed first. Upon its launch, Threads became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in its first five days and surpassing the record previously set by ChatGPT.[2][3][4] This early success was not sustained, and the user base of the app plummeted more than 80% to 8 million daily active users by the end of July 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)

Per Axbom: The many branches of the Fediverse. Federated? What does that mean? All the different instances of Mastodon can talk to each other. All the different instances of Pixelfed can talk to each other. And all the different instances of Mastodon can talk to all the different instances of Pixelfed. (more)

Lu Wilson: I went to an algorave.vI’ve been trying to express myself with code for a while. (more)

Shane Crowley (edibotopic): Trying Arroost. I've been playing around with an early version of Arroost, a node-based tool for live sampling. (more)

Ash Maurya business model quick-test - see (2024-06-28) Maurya Stop Wasting Time On Unviable Business Ideas

Ash Maurya: Don’t rush outside the building. "Get outside the building" is one of the battle cries of the Customer Development/Lean Startup movement. (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

(named in honor of british "Mind The Gap") (more)