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Convertible notebooks need improvement
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  innovation 1 Comment 2,580 Views
Laptops are the ubiquitous tool of Networked Man. It's also how you identify them in the wild.
I'm a very heavy laptop user. I take it with me almost every day when I leave the house. Hence, I need something that won't drag me down in terms of weight. I've been using one kind of Thinkpad or another for years, honestly, because this is what they provide me at work. It seems to do the job well and isn't too heavy (current one is about 5 lbs).
On the other hand,I really like the idea of convertible notebooks or Tablet PCs where you can flip the screen over
and lay it flat on the keyboard and then write on it. IBM's PC division (before Lenovo) had one for a brief time together with a notepad, but that went away. In fact most Tablet PCs were similar size (12" screens), which was a little too small for me.
The one I see out there now is Gateway's 14" widescreen version. However, they haven't made a good docking station for it, just a port replicator.
I'd like to a tablet PC with a docking station you can just plug into vertically to turn the unit into a sort of
all-in-one monitor-PC. There'd be a keyboard, mouse and cabling connected to the dock of course. But the core idea would be to have a dock that works like an adjustable monitor base (turning it, raising it, etc.)
When you're on the go, you could simply suspend, unlock and lift it off and put it into a locking hard case/shell rather than having to strap into a laptop bag.
Honestly, the five minutes it takes for me to hibernate my computer, undocking, and pack it; then do the reverse when at my location turns out to be about an hour a week I've lost. That's 40-50 hours a year; i.e., a whole week of work.
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Crowdsourcing community use-case
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  collective_intelligence use-cases education 1 Comment 3,046 Views
We talked about crowdsourcing as a particular community use-case. It definitely counts as a use-case because of the use of multiple community services, tools and need for potential CMs.
(I looked up Wikipedia but there's no entry right now, so perhaps I'll have to add one)
The concept itself is far from new but the delivery is. The core idea is that you pick a topic, invite a crowd to discuss or brainstorm on it, pick top ideas, let people vote on it. The way it's being applied in online communities is interesting. Take a look at a recent Businessweek story on this (and an earlier one from July).
The following is from our slide on this item that draws some from this:
There are plenty of other examples I'm sure that I left out.
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Customer co-creation, prosumers, participation
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  community_building participation 3,031 Views
I'm reading the chapter in Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams' Wikinomics book on Prosumers. (see my book list). It makes a particular point that I should highlight:
The old customer co-creation idea was simple: Collaborate with your customers to create or customize goods, services, and experiences, all while generating a built-in market for your wares...I couldn't agree more with them on the intentions of the company. However, I still have to agree that the same examples they give in other parts of the book are still similar to this idea. For example, even digg has basic limits on what you can do: write a short port, or vote. Even though digg allows anyone to submit a post, it still sets the parameters on when people can innovate. Fine line? Possibly, but the reality is that short of giving a complete blank slate for anyone to do anything, the real value actually comes from giving guidance and parameters on how people can participate on a social site. If you make it too open ended, it may end up becoming too unfocused on purpose. In other words, if the leaders or owners of the community/social site define the purpose and focus area, then the users have an idea of what to expect and what to do there.
This is the company-centric view of cocreation. We'll set the parameters by telling you when and on which products to innovate. You'll give us your ideas for free, but we'll choose the best of them...
The model for prosumption that Wikinomics talks about is more about mashup culture, and the idea of enabling consumers to freely interact to create their own versions or interpretations of products. This means that the prosumers--a distinct subset of your overall users, and possibly even a relatively small percentage depending upon the complexity of the product--should be allowed greater freedom on how to use the products and share their ideas.
Wikinomics' suggestions on how to harness prosumers is very good:
It's easy to give a hugely inclusive environment like Wikipedia and then say that wiki's can apply to everything, but it simply doesn't work that way. Participation in wikis, or for that matter any social service, depends upon the number of participants in the system, and more importantly, how many really care to be there. For that to happen, the users and potential prosumers need to easily see the value of being in that community. The simpler or more evident the purpose, the easier it is for people to decide if they want to be in that community or not.
Beyond just reading or consuming the info in the community, you need to find ways to engage or challenge the community to invite participation; and make it easy for them to participate. The more immediate it is to interact, the more interaction you will get. From simpler interactions, you can start building more complicated interactions and generate that recurring following. These return participants are what help to spur prosumption activity, or at least bring that activity into the context of your community. This is where more the abovementioned suggestions from Wikinomics can come into play.
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Cutting the wires and going to RSDC
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  secondlife telecommuting conferences 2,499 Views
This looks like another busy day for phone calls, but an excellent time to test out the battery life of my new Moto Q and Plantonics pulsar stereo headset (see my previous post).
Yesterday, I tested out the phone to visit our podcasts and listen to some of our recent interviews, downloaded to the phone. I then left the phone in a spot and walked around for a while with the stereo wireless headset and it worked like a charm: the high-speed wireless network, the cellphone's browser, the freedom of wireless, and sitting on the hammock watching the stars listening to the podcast. The sound quality was excellent, both in terms of focusing the caller's voice (over background noise), and listening to audio playback from the net, the laptop, or the ipod. Next test today is skype and long hours of calls, to see how uncomfortable it can get and which dies first the battery in the cellphone or the headset.
Next week's trip to Rational Software Developer Conference 2007 in Orlando should be fun (quick infomercial). They have some great activities planned, including some new things by our own team:
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Darn it.. missed Secondfest
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  secondlife 1,955 Views
I missed out on Secondfest, a music festival on SecondLife that Intel recently sponsored together with the UK's Guardian newspaper. There were so many performers there, I'm surprised at the size of it. Even one of my long-time favorites, The Pet Shop Boys. This is a fairly large online event to organize and I'm pretty sure it takes a good concert promoter on the side of the bands too. It's hard to call this a UK thing when it's on SL. I think the promotion for it I'd like to try to find out who helped to organize this.
PS: Does the group Hadouken have anything to do with the old Capcom Street Fighter II games?
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Day 1 Rational Software Dev Conference 2006
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  conferences 2,181 Views
I'm at the Rational Software Development Conference 2006, taking a break between sessions. If you haven't seen it already, there is a lot going on. You can start on our blog and podcast page for this event.
The first interesting session I found was on Building a Strong Software Business on Open Source, by Palle Pedersen, CTO of Black Duck Software. His company works on testing compliance in software products. In particular, they have taken a look at the issues around licensing, usage and behavior of teams who use open source software or incorporate them into products of their own.
Interesting factoid: there are now about 600 different variations of open source licenses. Can you imagine checking compliance of code/products that incorporates that kind of range/possibility of OS software?
More interesting to me is his point that there is a common best practice to how to incorporate OSS into your own line:
This is oversimplification of the whole thing but its step two of this business model that obviously catches my eye. In fact, there were a few questions about how to do Step 2. This is in fact exactly what our Community team in dW is tackling. I'm just glad that people are starting to recognize the importance of this as a required part of the open source business model.
We've known this for a while but many groups tend to just gloss over this. The assumption is that if you start a discussion group, you've satisfied that step. It's not as simple as that. In fact, there are many OS products with discussion groups but that still never take off as a success. What is needed is a more scientific way of performing this overall step (which is what I'm hoping would become the outcome of my current side-project to create a course for Community Management at the University of Arizona MIS dept. More on that later).
In any case, I think there's a story there in what Palle said around this OSS business model and community development to pursue.
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Day 2 RSDC
Okay, it's really Day 3 but I'm posting on yesterday's events.
I took a bunch of photos. Unfortunately, they're all off a 5MP camera so I have to resize them each time. Maybe it's time for me to get one of those cellphones that can post photos directly to your blog. Anyway, I'll have photos back-posted soon.
The blogger meetup went well with some analysts, execs and tech folk all around. It was mostly a leisurely meet up with folks we work with but rarely see. We signed a big get well soon card for Grady that's being sent out today as I speak.
I spent part of the day manning the booth (okay only an hour or two compared to the other dW staff members) talking to different people as they come by. It feels like there are a lot of first-timers to the RSDC this year, and we had about 50-50 split on people familiar with dW and others not. I had an interesting conversation with a gent from Amazon Web services and there's a session later today on Mashing with Amazon Web Services that I intend to visit.
I'm heading back to the booth again for now.
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Day 3 RSDC 2006
Day 3 came and went quite quickly.
The interesting event of the day was Amazon's sessions on its Web services. Amazon Web Services is the software side of the company, sort of separate from the main sales/retail site that they are so well known for. The retail side uses some of these same Web services within the site, but they are also available to external customers as well. I listened to Jeff Barr from Amazon describe them some of which include:
and many more... You should go to aws.amazon.com to find out more.
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Day one from Evans Developer Relations Conference
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  innovation conferences web_2.0 community_building 1 Comment 3,138 Views
After about 4-5 hours of sleep the previous night, I was still in reasonable shape to do my presentation at the 3rd Developer Relations Conference hosted by Evans Data Corp. This is a gathering of the folks who run developer programs at different technology companies, with speakers from Sun, Nokia, BEA Systems, Eclipse, Motorola, Yahoo!, HP Software, Intel, Borland, AMD, and many more (and of course ourselves from IBM). It seems an anachronism to have an event where all these companies that are competing for many of the same developers to share knowledge but I think it opens minds and views all the same.
My presentation was Extending your developer network with Web 2.0 communities, discussing what you need to know about communities to pick the right kind of Web 2.0 tools for yours. For all the organizations that may go headlong into setting up blogs, wikis, etc., and even multiple competing instances, without really understanding the communities they are trying to create, I hope this talk gives provides some food for thought. (The powerpoint works best in slideshow mode: F5).
I attended a few of the other sessions but the one I found refreshing was Chad Dickerson's talk about Hack Day at Yahoo! Chad's a Sr Director at Yahoo and responsible for organizing the internal Hack Days, and more importantly, the external Hack Day last June. I had missed this event entirely (busy with my then-8-month pregnant wife). They essentially opened up the Yahoo campus to 400 developers from all over who agreed to come and spend 24 hours developing new projects and mashups using Yahoo's many APIs. The format was what intrigued me:
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Dead-tree format
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  books blogs 2 Comments 2,950 Views
I have been looking at online-to-print publishing services lately, or alternate formats in e-books, lately. Even with so many online forms, dead-tree formats are still preferred by far. Part of it is a question of format and such, but right now I'm more interested in how people feel about a book.
Stability - It's ironic that in a business world where fluidity and change are pressing forces, that printed books with a fixed set of information are still preferred. It is not as much the permanence as the stability in knowing that the same information is still there, not changing. For a lot of information that does not require adjustments or fluidity, this makes books first in mind. This is also its weakness in books: the more variable information needs to be the less significant the value of a book.
Exclusivity - It is the fact that not everyone can get their work published that adds value to books. This doesn't mean that the best info always gets out there, but it does mean that people have to work harder to get their info published. In the traditional process, this was to encourage excellence (but I don't think that's always the case)
There are other values, but those are being eroded (slowly) with the rise of digital formats: portability, visual impact, artistic value, etc.
Therefore to some folks, its that feeling of exclusivity of having a published book that makes it worthwhile. Which is why I think the idea of vanity publishing used to be compelling enough to keep a cottage industry going. Today however, with key innovations like HP's Indigo press system, it becomes so much cheaper to print low-quantity runs of books.
Take a look at Blurb.com, which allows anyone to get their photos, words, blogs, etc. put into print format at an affordable level. Having written so much over the years, I wouldn't mind taking some of my old online work and having it published into a print format, if nothing else to just have on my bookshelf.
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Decentralized communities & Spaces
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  books community_building 3,217 Views
I picked up my copy of The Starfish and the Spider again to look back at how they describe their approach to building a community. The book advocates a new view of decentralized and non-hierarchical organizations, systems, even software. The two creates refer to the hierachical organism (Spider) that can survive loosing some parts of its body but after a point dies, as compared against the distributed organism (Starfish) which even when cut into pieces, essentially break up into multiple separate and surving organisms.
The reference is directly apt to communities, and in this light relevant to our Spaces model. Essentially, it is a way of how a community can organize itself. Per the book, there are five elements that help to make such a system successful: circles, a pre-existing network, ideology, catalysts, and champions.
In our view, a Space is a virtual implementation of having a circle of people that allows them to interact in any number of ways their own circle see fit. This is the home room for the virtual membership to gather together, interact or share information.
The pre-existing network comes from the large membership--6 million the last I checked--that already exists in developerWorks. However, that's not the only place. We also expect to draw folks from other areas of the Internet, which is why syndicating information from your space is so important. While circles can survive losses of members, they still need some minimum level of participation to sustain the existence of the system; otherwise, rather than subdividing, your membership simply dissipates. This is why for the long-term it is important to try to recruit new members. Of course, that still depends upon the intentions of the circle itself; they may decide that the circle only needs to exist for a short-term. In our model, the syndication not only helps to share information, but also acts a way to potentially draw more members based on their interest. The potential candidates can judge for themselves if they like the output of the circle.
However, raw information from the circle is not enough to bind people together. This is why ideology is of value. Call it what you like: mission statements, guidelines, values, tattoos, etc. They represent the ideas that the circle hold of importance; their view in relation to the information. Such ideology is not always necessarily complex, or spelled out; they may even be too subtle to ascertain from the regular ruminations of those on the roster. A better organized group works to make sure that their ideology is made apparent. To help shape that ideology, you need catalysts and champions who help raise and direct the circle.
dW Spaces can help shape the circle and tap pre-existing networks. It can even help the circle describe and post their ideology. However, this is where the software meets the wetware. This is where the brains of the catalysts and champions play key roles. In other words, software alone is not to build communities. It helps to to facilitate them, but you still need the people working to bring it together.
Our view in developerWorks is to try to help these communities start and grow, and collect the ideas of what works well in different situations, to feed back into other communities. That's a long-term process as well. Even though, the staff at dW may not be directly be the catalysts and champions, we try to help new them by acting as a common resource to collect and distribute that knowledge. In big companies, that is often referred to as a center of excellence. While we don't call ourselves that, perhaps that is the role we fill.
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Defined Social Contexts and Perspectives
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I'm trying to determine what would be the best way of describing the following concept:
- a recurring or common scenario of how people gather together in any size of population from small pairings to very huge communities
- who can post, provide input
- who can see/use/take the output
- how long it exists, who determines that
I simplified the factors above but it gives a general idea. Some examples are: a person's social network, a group activity, an instant messaging session, a long-term community, a mass collaboration like Digg, etc.
I started thinking about it as a social perspective or how people see it in a visual sense. We've also been talking about it in terms of social context which separates out the visual element and away from a focus on a beneficiary group, towards an abstract notion.
My thought is that there are a limited number of well known types of social contexts/perspectives that I've seen repeatedly across many sites. However, people don't necessarily know which one they are because they don't know the general idea versus specific examples (like how I listed Digg above). Once you can tell which social context/perspective your site has, or even multiple ones, you can then go on towards explaining what the other elements of it are.
Which do you think makes more sense or rings better to you?
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Defining metrics around community participation
Good business plans delivers on results, and to get results you first have to be able to determine what they should be and be able to measure them. Ie seen many business operations that aren quite sure what results they are supposed to be delivering, or have no easy way to measure those results. They end up not really progressing or succeeding in the long run.
With the new territory that is Web 2.0, this comes sharply into view. Organizations that implementing or running Web 2.0 services like blogs, forums, wikis, and other social interaction systems, all need to know how to measure them and what measurements are meaningful. At least wee lucky that in the online world, collecting data and doing business analytics can be more automated.
Many companies already agree that for Web sites (Web 1.0) you need to be able to determine pageviews (PVs), and unique monthly visitors (UVs) as your two key metrics, to determine the success of the site.
But now consider what Web 2.0 is about and think about if those metrics still give meaningful information. If youe an organization like ours where our Community has a wide range of Web 2.0 services, how do compare those metrics between that of a forum and from a blog? Does it even make sense do that when what youe really interested in are things more like: How vibrant or healthy is our community? Who do people interact with? Is our communtiy self-supporting or do we have to do a lot to keep it alive? How much does it cost us to support our community?
My idea on this is that PVs and UVs are too low-level to answer these questions, and we need another level of metrics beyond that which Il call participation metrics. These metrics are used to try to answer the questions, or at least get a sense for what those levels are.
Now, the catch: How do determine participation metrics in a Web 2.0 system when even the ways people participate are very different between blogs, forums and other services?
The key, I think, is to go back to social network theory and the core ideas of collaboration; in particular, the idea of relationships between the members of any social network or community. It fairly easy to quantify a relationship, but it very hard to determine the quality of the relationship.
In this case, I focusing on the quantity of relationships, as well as the population mixes. Taking dW as an example, there are many ways of looking at our population but the one that interests me here is the relationships between a consumer and a producer. Simply said, you can look at four main population segments:
Thus, you can create a matrix of sorts here based on the interaction activity going on a specific area:
You can go on defining more and more based on every (repeatable) use-case you can think of. More significantly, what this does is coaslesce together all the Community uses that generally contribute to specific relationships. While not entirely accurate, you could generalize that each use case mostly contributes to one or two types of relationships.
Thus, you develop a mapping across your entire landscape of interaction types for participation metrics based on relationships. If you have multiple communities (or dozens like dW has), you could limit the scope of the data to all service uses relevant to a specific community (e.g., IBM Rational ClearCase community) or specific set of communities (e.g., all IBM Rational communities), or you could look across all your communities at once (e.g., all dW). You have essentially, a set of participation metrics that applies to a range of data.
How do you use these metrics? It depends upon the questions you ask:
Again, this idea is more of a method than actual steps to take for your communities. You can see that the information is subjective to the goals and direction of your organization.
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Design is changing
I'm read HOW magazine's article on Small Medium Large--unfortunately only in print--talking about the shifts in design strategy. The article describes six shifts, but some of them seem strikingly similar. They suggestions echo our strategies in dW now.
Otherwise, the common theme to me seems like being a designer now is a job shared by more people beyond just a design team, and even involving users in the process. However, at the same time, this means you need to design a system whereby it is easy for the user to get involved and affect design. This means creating the tools or mechanisms that allow them that capability, all while making it simple to do so. Thus, you provide the tools and a context on how the users can achieve their goals. There is also a lot more for designers to learn, and in this time of flux, to keep learning and training on new methods and processes. The job is getting harder by the day.
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developerWorks Korea has launched its Community
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Our sister site developerWorks Korea has launched its own community page!
It's in Korean (Hangul, if I'm right) at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/kr/community/
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developerWorks spaces preview and webcast
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We launched our developerWorks Spaces project at the Web 2.0 Expo last week. The page has more information including a video and an interactive tour of what the project is all about, but in quick summary: with our spaces system, you now have the opportunity to create your own community microsite around a topic, project or other activity for developers that can bring together multiple social networking tools, any of the developerWorks articles or tutorial content, or any RSS feed from across the Internet. We provide an easy web-based tool for you to create the community topic space and publish it to share with everyone. Please visit the URL for the project to see how you can apply for your own space.
I will also share information about the project in a webcast this Wednesday on April 25th, 1-2pm Eastern Time. This 1 hour long joint webcast together with the Software as a Service (SaaS) team is available through the IBM PartnerWorld webcasts as Social Networking and Software as a Service. It's a free webcast but requires registration to use the tool to see the slide presentation, the demo, the Q&A, and polls.
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Different forms of collaboration/competition in social computing
rawn 100000R0P5 Tags:  collaboration book social-tasks 1 Comment 6,430 Views
I noticed Hutch Carpenter's (@bhc3) post about this proposed session in Enterprise 2.0 conference where he's talking about different forms of competition. I had to share this excerpt from chapter 4 on Social Tasks of my book on the different forms of working together on a social/collaborative task.
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"The next step of defining a social task is to consider how members perform this task collectively. Social software aggregates the behavior or content from many individuals into overall results or collections of results. However, you can use different methods to perform aggregation:
- Independent: Members work on the task separately, but the results are aggregated across all members. Their discrete actions and results might not be directly visible to others: the results are visible only as an converged aggregate value (for example, closed ballot voting).
- Autonomous: Members work on the task separately of each other, and their results are distinctly visible to other members as separate work. This creates opportunities in which members might benefit from information that multiple other members share. A collection of divergent results across the many members or a single convergent result (such as brainstorming on ideas) can occur.
- Consensus: A group of members works directly together on the task with the intent to deliver an overall collective result, even if it's not unanimous or convergent. Tasks often require analysis, discussion, and debate to arrive at a collective answer. The ultimate goal is to converge and deliver a single collective result, but members might not always agree on one answer and there sometimes produce multiple options as results.
- Deliberative: A group of members works directly together without the intent or necessity of coming to a consensus on a single result. These are typically discussions or interactions that can spread out in many directions, depending on how subsets of members interact.
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I was talking to Bobby Woolf earlier today regarding the different generations of what we all call the Web. Bobby blogged on Web 2.0, the current conversation on a move from a focus on content to one around APIs. There are blog sites, conferences and other activities all around how services are present the great idea of how to work with the Web.
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I've tested the Web since 1990, starting with a very early
text-based browser that Berners-Lee first released that predated even Lynx. Then Mosaic, Mosaic 2.0, Netscape's alpha browsers, Netscape Navigator, Spyglass Mosaic, HotJava (Sun's original Java-based browser), Opera, Mozilla, and a few others. Over the years, I think there were probably a few other "generations" that came and went:
The benefit of the services Web is that it ties applications in more obvious and neutral ways that specific programming APIs, scripting languages and plug-ins. More significantly as Bobby indicated it brings a widely considered design pattern of the Model-View-Controller (the Observor-Observable pattern to be accurate); the separation of a presentation element from a communicating element and the execution elements of the design. Most programmers are familar with it and its benefits. The news now is that business people are beginning to take notice of its benefits too.
PS: Know any other trends in information presentation and interaction on the Web that came, went or stuck-around?
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There are several different ways of looking at what to measure and how to measure benefit or value in social software systems.
First, who receives the benefit from the system, and how do you measure their benefit:
These are just my own ruminations. I believe that there are some ways to develop or gather metrics of some of these, but it may be a while before we can agree on how to measure all aspects of these. Before thinking about how to formalize this, you should take a look at these ideas of how to carefully define a measurement process by Peter Andrews, part of the Senior Consulting Faculty for the IBM Executive Business Institute. These are the brainiacs that think about the "thing behind the thing" (to paraphrase the classic statement from many a mobster movie): how to define or measure abstract concepts like innovation, strategy and more.
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Ive just started reading Tom Davenport's new book Thinking for a Living, a great book on the issues surrounding knowledge workers.
If you havent heard of this term, you may not realize that you are (in the IT industry) very likely a knowledge worker yourself. This kind of work is a difficult to quantify, and even describe, but essentially involves all those jobs where people spend the majority of their time thinking of solutions for a living (doctors, lawyers, managers, programmers, etc.) rather than building many unit pieces of the same thing (e.g., manufacturing, production or labor-intensive work). This may still be an unfair description.
In fact, even the book indicates that the term has been measured in many different ways. In the US, the Labor statistics report is not categorized this way, so analysis by different academics point to there being anywhere from 30 million to over 100 million knowledge workers in the US alone (thats from 10-30% of the population).
The book makes for a fascinating read. For me, it provides valuable context to understand how developers worldwide do or think of their work. For example, Davenport indicates that there are some common attributes for knowledge workers, no matter their job:
It is these last two points where I find good relevance to my own job. Im probably a typical knowledge worker; in fact, my current job can be categorized as heavy knowledge work, but also some production work.
For the production work-side, I am responsible for getting more people blogging, discussing, debating, and interacting on technical topics on our site through our various community areas. Loosely, that translates to getting more instances of blogs, forums, wikis, and other such tools, started and running. I certainly have help from many others to get this going.
On the knowledge work-side, I work on our community strategy and direction, and lead our large community project currently in development in dW. This means I work with our infrastructure and development teams to describe the technical idea and debate solutions. I work with our research team and do research myself on different Web 2.0 and community activities around the Web. I work with our design, user experience and information architecture teams to consider how to present, organize, and direct this information. I work with our content teams to consider how to use or how to get others to use our community system, generate content, and participate in activities. I work with our management to present, consider and strategize what we should be doing in all these areas. Finally, I work with other teams and people outside dW, in IBM and beyond, to discuss many of these areas in relation to Web 2.0 and community. Believe me, that's a lot of phone calls and knowledge exchange.
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The word âclearingâ is probably one of the least sexy in the financial lexicon. Invariably coupled with its long term partner âsettlementâ, the two are often treated â unfairly â by their front office colleagues as the boring next-door neighbours of the financial world.
Absolutely necessary to have in case you run out of milk, and reliable if you lose your front-door key. But you wouldn't want them at your party. Clearing houses have mixed views about this. They prefer to be thought of as the central nervous system of the financial market, not its pipework. Quite rightly so, as much depends on their smooth running.
But they are also quite pleased about their low profile: it tends to take a Refco- type default or an asset price crash to make clearing newsworthy. No news about clearing is good news. This year, however, the business will become big news. Clearing may be about to become glamorous.
First there is LCH.Clearnet. Roger Liddell, the clearer's chief executive, has had six months in the job and there are signs he is ready to make changes. Last year he introduced fee concessions and encouraged much less public management departures. Last week he reached an agreement with LCH's largest shareholder, Euronext, to repurchase the majority of its shares.
All three changes have been welcomed and were doubtless much needed, but Liddell has more to do if he is to secure a healthy future for the clearer. One of his first moves at LCH was to abandon the Generic Clearing System project, a multi- million pound IT platform that was deemed neither technically nor economically viable. He has yet to say what will replace this.
Apart from appointing a general counsel, he has not brought in new staff to shore up senior LCH ranks, nor has he said much about the clearer's plans.
If these are up in the air, so is some of LCH's business. Following the Intercontinental Exchange's purchase of the New York Board of Trade it is possible – if not likely – that ICE will transfer its clearing from the LCH to Nybot, the New York Clearing Corporation. It is not clear how much will change in the Euronext-LCH relationship following the exchange's planned divestment of its LCH stake and tie up with the New York Stock Exchange, but it is certain is there will be derivatives clearance opportunities if Euronext.liffe extends its futures activity into the US.
LCH is a possible – but not the only – contender for this business as it has an unused US clearing house authorisation.
Changes in other parts of the clearing business will affect how Liddell positions himself. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has been seeking to extend its clearing remit. Not content with owning most of the US financial futures clearance business, it wants to build a large over-the-counter capability as well. Its efforts to reach into the largest of these markets – foreign exchange and interest rate swaps – have been welcomed by shareholders but not, it would appear, by the banks that are most actively trading in these markets.
A handful of these banks responded to the CME's over-the-counter ambitions by backing the Clearing Corporation. The erstwhile clearing partner of the Chicago Board of Trade, CCorp has had a tough time recently, but that could change. While contemplating acting as clearer to Eurex's US arm in 2004, it lost the valuable CBOT clearing mandate to the CME and was left with little choice but to throw in its lot with the ill-fated German-American start-up.
Man Financial has taken over the renamed US Futures Exchange and announced plans to reinvigorate it. Some of the largest OTC market participants are meanwhile determined to keep hold of their clearing business by backing CCorp and interdealer brokerage groups Icap and GFI have decided to join their endeavours. With the banks, they have refilled CCorp coffers and strengthened its board.
In Europe, there are other uncertainties. Until now Eurex Clearing has only offered its fixed income and derivatives clearance services back into the Deutsche Börse and SWX groups.
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Where all of this leaves the future of clearing is anyone's guess. There is no guarantee that the dealer-led antagonism to the CME's OTC plan will guarantee its failure any more than there is certainty that the same dealers' support for CCorp's will ensure its success.
Liffe could go into the US futures with or without LCH; the ICE-LCH clearing debate could end in a parting of ways or in a closer union. Eurex Clearing could be spun off from the Swiss-German exchange, remain integral to it but open to outsiders, or stay as it is.
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Travelling America: The Diaries of John Steinbeck and Jean Baudrillard
America has long been considered the "land of opportunity," which makes it in turn, an opportune place to travel and explore. Though vast in geography and rich in culture, America has often offered its travelers a similar experience, as these travelers so often find themselves visiting similar places and hearing similar tales of the past and the present. Additionally, travelling often brings with it a longing for the past, as is seen so often in the case of America and the search for an understanding of the "American Dream," which has for years been rooted in the land and resources that America has to offer. Is this notion still true, or is it merely wishful thinking of the past?
This question can be explored further in comparing the travels through America of author John Steinbeck, and author and sociologist, Jean Baudrillard. Steinbeck, an American, and Baudrillard, a Frenchman, began their travels through America's heartland in much the same way: eager to learn and explore. And while their distinctly different cultural backgrounds and different perspectives allowed each man to experience the country in his own way, in reading their accounts, one can see vast similarities, which each add a piece to the understanding of America's changing culture in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in terms of the nation's environmental perspectives.
Comparison: Steinbeck v. Baudrillard
Travels with Charley: In Search of America, is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck that recounts the experiences attained during a 1960 road trip across America with his dog, Charley. Steinbeck, who had made his name writing novels about the American experience such as Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath, noted that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it (McGrath 2011, pp.1). Driven by a sense of wanderlust about a country in which he lived and wrote of but had never fully seen, Steinbeck set forth on a nearly 10,000-mile journey across America in a specially-made camper which he named Rocinante, after the horse of legendary literary character, Don Quixote (Steigerwald 2010, pp.1).
In viewing this brief description alone, it can be assumed that Steinbeck undertook this trip with a sense of wonder, fully ready to meet the hard-working Americans and natural wonders that the country had to offer in his dreams. What he found, however, was exceedingly different. On his journey, Steinbeck was able to see that the majority of Americans had given up on the dreams of the past. They no longer lived on or appreciated the land which they were given, but worried instead about increasing technology, the struggle to fit the "norm" and the quest for continued wealth and growth, both on a personal and global scale.
Steinbeck found that even the nation's most treasured natural resources had been capitalized upon and turned into businesses rather than held for their natural beauty and wonder. Upon reaching Wyoming, he noted, "it is my opinion that we close and celebrate the freaks of our nature and of our civilization . . . Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland" (Steinbeck 1961, pp. 16). This is what angered Steinbeck so closely, and angers most individuals who argue against the quest for superiority and expansion and want nothing but to return to simpler times. Such natural wonders and environmental bounty existed and continues to exist on a lesser level throughout the entire country. However, the quest for constant expansion and a cultural shift from valuing a down-home, salt of the earth existence into fast-paced, technologically-savvy world left Steinbeck disenchanted with his idealistic perception of America and the lives so many Americans led.
At the time Steinbeck was travelling, 1960, America was dealing with a significant debate regarding the status of the environment, with those pushing for the advancement of technology, through the building of environmentally-destructive factories and projects butting heads with individuals who understood the value of nature along with the environmental damage that continued expansion brought about. Steinbeck's own writing dealt with this debate, and he wrote, "Even those people who joy in n umbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation" (Steinbeck 1961, pp. 196).
Steinbeck's own status as an American and literary obsession with the country certainly aided in his disgust for what he saw throughout much of the country. While Steinbeck still saw glimmers of hope in portions of America, such as Montana, which he noted had "towns which were places to live rather than nervous hives," where people appreciated life and nature and simplicity, the quest for his own "American Dream" was ultimately more lackluster than he had hoped for, and he ultimately alluded that one "can't go home again because home ceases to exist except in the mothballs of memory" (Steinbeck 1961, pp. 158, 206).
French sociologist and author, Jean Baudrillard, had much the same opinion of America upon his travelling throughout the country in the early 1970s. Living his entire life in France, Baudrillard had the same idealized notions of America and sought to experience them for himself, thus setting off on a journey that would evidently become his own travelogue, America. What he found, was also, exceedingly different. He found a country obsessed with the notion that bigger is better, never settling or enjoying but moving on and up at an excruciating pace. Baudrillard notes that much of America's association with the land and the environment stem from a sense of loss. He notes that the American Southwest is filled with individuals who still feel the losses of their ancestors losing that land they treasured to foreign invaders, who are now forced to live under a society which they never embraced. Even the desert, he notes, which remains largely untouched, only brings back "nostalgia" of a lost time (Baudrillard 1986, pp. 67).
Many years later, Baudrillard noted the same sense of disconnect in American culture, focusing not on its own land and resources (as seen by the American war in Iraq), but on the quest for others, perhaps to regain what it has lost (Solomon 2005, pp.1). Such a disconnect between what people viewed as the values upheld by Americans in their own minds and what Americans seem to value throughout the country as seen by observers is quite apparent, which leads readers of these works and more general observers to question and evaluate the American culture both as a whole and in terms of environmental perspectives.
In viewing each of these works by two men who couldn't be more different from one another, strong similarities are seen, especially in assessing the overall absence of the "American Dream," as noted by both authors, as well as the desire to grow and expand on a more material level rather than protect and value the environment, nature, and more generally, the ways of the past. In utilizing the writings of both Steinbeck and Baudrillard, one can additionally look into research that can help pinpoint when this shift in American mindset took place, away from the environment and nature and toward technology and modernization, especially during the period in which the two men traveled: the 1960s and 1970s.
Evaluating American Environmental Culture of the 1960s-70s
At the time of Steinbeck's travels through America, the American environmental culture was beginning to change, and the initiatives that would begin in the years to follow would significantly change the way Americans viewed the environment. Like Steinbeck, and Baudrillard to follow, many American citizens, politicians, and environmental activists were beginning to take note of the general sense of disregard toward the environment in favor of globalization, economic prosperity, technological advances and the like, which had secured the United States a place on the world stage. Despite this success, however, many Americans grew displeased with the overarching sense of ignorance towards the environment and towards the values upon which America was founded and fostered.
The environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s can be said to have started in 1962 with the publication of Silent Spring. Environmental atrocities and cover-ups involving toxic disasters were beginning to come to light and individuals who had once existed with a "not in my back yard" mentality were now focused on public health and a perspective of "not in anyone's back yard" (Freudenberg and Steinsapir 1991, pp. 235-6).
The United States saw a massive influx of "grassroots" organizations which sought to bring suit against many of the alleged environmental offenses that had taken place in years past (Kuzmiak 1991, pp. 265).
Due to such an influx in awareness, individuals were able to return to a culture of environmental awareness and appreciation, and the environmental movement that took place began the transformation of "environmentalism as an ideology into a full-fledged social movement" (Silveira 2001, pp.…[continue]
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Doc, re part 2 of your comment, AMEN!!!
problem is the Right Wing that controls the GOP wants to turn the USA into a theocracy where if your not a Born Again Christian you will have no rights. Sort of like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and all other Islamic countries. If Jesus was here he would be a Democrat not a hateful Republican
No one wants to turn the USA into a "Theocracy." That is a liberal canard. There are no great "theocratic" leaders. Right-wingers just want to outlaw abortion, preserve the tradition of marriage, and stop government funds from going to groups that promote as much. Hardly the same as beheadings for "blasphemy" and stonings for so-called adultery you see in Islamic lands.
The fundies DO want a theocracy and they will be just as bad as any other. Once in power the fools who believe as they do will make the Salem trials and the Inquisition look like a picnic. Just listen to their leaders and beware.
I'm an Eisenhower Republican. At age 62 I have no home. Conservatives are mean and liberals are gullible. Jefferson trusted the farmers - people who worked the land. As of the 2007 Ag Census, "Of the 2.2 million principal farm operators in the nation, 1.2 million report something other than farming as their primary occupation." The total 2007 U.S. workforce was 153 million. Trust, but verify was not only for the Soviets. It should have been applied on Wall Street. The conservatives took credit for the economic growth, now want to be "moral" about bailing out the risk taking they encouraged with lack of oversight. The people who have turned Republican into a brand that can be used to game the country took away the party I first joined.
We have small government for local issues, and medium government for state issues and big government for the big issues. We don't need total government anymore than we need total religion or total commerce. Each institution needs to play the role human society needs so that we may have freedom. These institution are to serve we the people.
Regarding "theocracy":
Part of the Wikipedia definition is the following: "Theocratic governments enact theonomic laws." Looking up theonomy: "The term "Theonomy" has been used to describe various views which see the God revealed in the Bible as the sole source of human ethics… Theonomy posits that the Biblical Law is applicable to civil law, and theonomists propose Biblical law as the standard by which the laws of nations may be measured, and to which they ought to be conformed."
Now tell me again that the fundamentalists don't want a theocracy.
Randy B, I believe you're on to something. Examples of this are the whole gay marriage arguments. Constitutionally, there's no argument against gay marriage. The only arguments are religious. Same arguments were used in making divorce illegal (long time ago now), but of course, it became too inconvenient, so we worked our way around that one.
Doctortoon, if the GOP was like that, I'd be in it. As it is, thats the Democrats. Funny how the terms liberal and conservative have gotten changed in the last 50 years. Remember Lincoln was a Republican. And he was an upstanding member of his party.
I agree, Doctortoon.
RandyB and cdward–I completely agree.
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Raphaela Papadakis seems to like 'playing with fire'. After her acclaimed performance as the put-upon maid, Anna, in Independent Opera's production of Šimon Voseček's Beidermann and the Arsonists at Sadler's Wells last year, she is currently rehearsing for the premiere this week of And London Burned, a new opera by Matt Rogers which has been commissioned by Temple Music Foundation to commemorate the 350th anniversary of The Great Fire of London.
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"A Singaporean blogger, who pled guilty to sedition charges last month for posting anti-Muslim remarks in his blog, has avoided a custodial sentence, and has been placed on 2 years probation instead. According to the article, the 17 year old student is the third person to be convicted under Singapore's sedition laws in October. Singapore, which is unconcerned by wide criticism of its record of press freedom, appears to have been stepping up efforts against bloggers in recent months."
This guy got off lightly compared to most. Often when I read reports like this I can't help but feel an affinity towards my fellow bloggers.
Indeed, blogging crosses all political, racial and religious boundaries putting us on a level playing field (excepting Pajamas Media elitists and their ilk of course :). That is what makes the blogosphere special. A blogging brother/sisterhood so to speak. The ties that bind and all that.
Perhaps it is also because I lived for a time in Malasia and I am reminded of when I lost a journalism job for merely voicing my opinion about the government. I should count myself lucky. Others have disappeared into the night for less.
I know first-hand the suffering that people in third world countries endure not having the luxury of freedom of speech that the west enjoys. There has been many a time that I wished there was more I could do besides providing lip-service. Then again, with the power of blog technology at least we can broadcast news items like this to the rest of the world, and if there is enough public opinion to bring to bear… who knows.


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Herman Cain wins 27 percent and Rick Perry 26 percent among self-identified Republican voters living in Texas, according to a new survey by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune.
Among conservative voters, Cain takes a stronger lead over the Texas governor.
"Maybe the most important number is that Cain is up 37 percent to 24 percent among the most conservative voters," said Daron Shaw, co-director of the poll. Cain also carries a lead in liberal-leaning cities such as Austin and Houston.
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Former Flyers coach Bill Dineen dies at 84
Former Flyers coach Bill Dineen dies at 84
Bill Dineen, who had the distinction of being Eric Lindros' first NHL coach, died early Saturday morning at his home in Lake George, New York. He was 84.
"Such a wonderful person, who got along with everybody," Flyers president Paul Holmgren said. "I never played for him, but worked with him in scouting. Just a great guy."
Dineen succeeded Holmgren as head coach during the 1991-92 season.
"When I got fired, a lot of our guys were squeezing their sticks," Holmgren said. "They were tight. It shouldn't be hard to play the game. When things got tough, they were a little under stress, Billy coming in, he loosened things up."
Dineen coached parts of two seasons here from 1991-92 through the 1992-93 season, which was Lindros' first year as a Flyer.
"Bill treated everyone with the utmost respect," Holmgren said. "He was the perfect guy for Eric coming in here. That respect goes both ways. He was almost a grandfatherly figure for Eric at the time."
Dineen served as a scout with the organization from 1990-91 until succeeding Holmgren as coach. He then returned to a scouting role in 1993-94 and remained with the Flyers as a scout through 1996-97.
Mark Howe, one of the greatest Flyers defensemen of all-time, played for Dineen as an 18-year-old rookie in the WHA with the Houston Aeros (1973-74), and also had him during his final year as a Flyer in 1991-92.
"He was one of the best people I ever met in the game of hockey," Howe said. "He was a real players coach. Of all the guys I ever played for. Maybe a little Paul Holmgren, too.
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Howe said Dineen's teams weren't all about skill.
"He picked people that were about 'the team,'" Howe said. "He made me earn my spot that first year in Houston."
Dineen posted a 60-60-20 record with the Flyers. His son, Kevin, played on both of those teams before assuming the captaincy from Rick Tocchet in 1993-94.
A gentleman behind the bench, Bill Dineen was much the same person as a player. A former right wing who spent the majority of his six-year playing career with the Detroit Red Wings, he had just 122 penalty minutes in 322 games, scoring 51 goals and 95 points.
"I knew Billy for a long time," Flyers senior vice president Bob Clarke said. "He was a player and coach at the minor league level and the NHL level, but I think more importantly he was a really, really good hockey person and really good person."
Dineen won two WHA titles coaching the Aeros and two Stanley Cups as a player with the Red Wings. A member of the AHL Hall of Fame, Dineen also coached the Adirondack Red Wings from 1983 through 1988-89.
Three of his five sons — Gordon, Peter and Kevin — played in the NHL. Sons Shawn and Jerry had their roots in the AHL.
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Dineen is part of Flyer folklore trivia. He, along with Keith Allen and Vic Stasiuk, were all Red Wings teammates during 1953-53. They also shared something else in common: all three later became Flyers head coaches.
Instant Replay: No. 1 Villanova 74, No. 23 Notre Dame 66
Instant Replay: No. 1 Villanova 74, No. 23 Notre Dame 66
NEWARK, N.J. – Villanova wasn't ready to surrender its No. 1 ranking that quickly.
Despite trailing No. 23 Notre Dame for the first 30-plus minutes of action Saturday, Josh Hart and the Wildcats kept the Fighting Irish at striking distance and stormed ahead late for a 74-66 win in the Never Forget Tribute Classic at the Prudential Center.
The Wildcats wouldn't take their first lead of the game until the nine-minute mark of the second half, which would put the teams on the seesaw for the next few minutes of action. Trailing the Fighting Irish, 62-61, with over six minutes remaining in the game, Villanova went on a 12-5 run to close out its 10th win in as many tries.
Hart continued his spectacular senior season, pouring in a career-high 37 points, pulling down 11 rebounds and dishing out four assists, all team highs. Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges and Eric Paschall each chipped in eight points behind Hart.
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Leading 68-66 with under two minutes remaining, a Kris Jenkins three pointer clanked off the back of the rim and fell to the ground as a loose ball. Jalen Brunson corralled the ball before it went out of bounds and was fouled by Matt Farrell. Brunson hit both free throws to extend the Wildcats' lead to four.
Bonzie missed an open look at a three on the other end and Darryl Reynolds was fouled after grabbing the rebound off the miss. Reynolds sunk both free throws to put the game on ice.
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Villanova: Josh Hart
Hart kept Villanova in striking distance in the first half, scoring over half of his team's points (19) and chipping in four rebounds and three assists. Hart continued his dominance in the second half with another 18 points and seven rebounds. The senior was 10 of 14 from the field, three of four from deep and a perfect 14 for 14 from the free throw line.
Notre Dame: Matt Farrell
The Bridgewater, New Jersey, native had an impressive homecoming. Farrell gave Villanova's defense fits all afternoon with his scoring and playmaking abilities out of the pick-and-roll, as he finished with 18 points on 8 of 13 shooting from the field and six assists.
Inside the box score
• Both teams struggled from deep. Notre Dame shot 6 of 22 and Villanova hit 4 of its 16 attempts
• Notre Dame led for 30:54 of playing time.
• A lot of the game was played in the half court, as both teams combined for just 13 fast-break points.
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