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| Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
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On to the Next Act 
| | It seems to me that if Xpertweb or its derivatives work, and if The Support Economy eventually becomes the next form of capitalism, the organizational forms that are spawned will not operate on hierarchical principles. This model will create an understanding of wirearchy, and how it operates. For now, the means to bring wirearchy into being are being explored, and the blueprints are being pored over by the architects, engineers and contractors. |
| | There¹s a shift happening, from command-and-control to champion-and-channel . When customers have more power and employees want to communicate and be heard, the dynamics have to change. |
| | The impact of hyperlinked, horizontal and vertical networks is beginning to be felt. This impact is creating new dynamics in organizations, and emergent forms of organized endeavours. |
Belated floggery
Fight fire with fun
Sticky Wicket
| | Quick: Read what happens when an ordinary sports report (India v. New Zealand at Cricket) turns into a raving blog. Two sentences into the piece, Scott Murray goes all-caps ballistic: |
| | I'D RATHER WAIT FOUR HOURS FOR A JOURNEY WITH THE GRIM REAPER QUITE FRANKLY AND THEN YOU GET TO WORK AND THEN THERE'S THIS AND I KNOW THE CRICKET'S GOOD AND ALL THAT BUT I'VE GOT OUT OF THE WRONG SIDE OF BED THIS MORNING AND IN ANY CASE IT'S NOT AS IF I'LL WRITE A CRACKING MATCH REPORT AND THEN GET REWARDED BY BEING SENT ON A WONDERFUL ASSIGNMENT AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE I'LL BE VERY SURPRISED IF ANY OF MY BOSSES WILL READ ANY OF THIS LET'S BE HONEST THEY WON'T ALTHOUGH ON THE OTHER HAND THAT'S PROBABLY JUST AS WELL HEY I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH TYPING THINGS LIKE THIS KIqL!UYS^%$DFLI ZSDSAFC SFE4O92 )(^(*^o"$ bBLKU E875O3 96*&^%o*"$ogb LOOK I'M SORRY THIS ISN'T EXACTLY THE SORT OF QUALITY EDITORIAL COPY YOU EXPECT FROM THE GUARDIAN BUT LOOK AT THE FACTS I'M ADRIFT IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE WORST CITIES IN THE WORLD SITTING IN FRONT OF THE SAME COMPUTER SCREEN I FACE DAY AFTER INTERMINABLE DAY HELL I COULD BE WAKING UP IN SAY THE MALDIVES OR SYDNEY OR COPENHAGEN OR A CROFTER'S COTTAGE IN SKYE AND GOING FOR A WALK IN THE CRISP MORNING AIR? |
WoE JOHO
| | Dr. Weinberger's Latest JOHO is out. Or up. Or here. The verb you choose depends your prepositional predispositions. Is it on the Web? In it? Over it? Through it? Says here there are upwards of a hundred prepositions to choose from (or, if you must be correct, from which to choose). David Hodskins, my business partner for many years, was a born copy editor who used to say "Ending a sentence in a preposition is a practice up with which I will not put." |
| | When cognitive linguists go digging for hidden conceptual metaphors, they often start poking around prepositions.. If something is on the Net, we conceive the Net as something with an outside, a surface. Such is also the case with radio and telephony. When we speak of those things in terms of exterior prespositions (e.g. on and over) we place ourselves outside them Stuff . Yet we are in the world, in town or in the house — which means we conceive those places in three dimensionally inclusive terms. |
Blast from the recent past
Methododdities
| | A man far more bright and knowing than I asked me yesterday what Trackback is all about. I couldn't tell him. I've been watching those links for awhile now, and I'm sure they're a good idea; but I'm still flummoxed. It's just a little too complicated for me. |
| | Yet I like the idea of keeping track of cross-blog topical threads. Seems like we're one or two implementation rounds away from a standard practice here. |
| | Interesting how the latter without the former causes the former to lack full importance. Not unlike real world publishing. |
| | Thanks to Hanan for that First Monday link. |
Kind of the opposite of killer bees
| | I'm a twenty year old poet from Maryland and have recently finished creating, along with a few others, an application which allows people to swarm the Internet. (www.eyebees.com) |
| | Eyebees is hosting a "Peace Swarm" this Friday, March 18 at noon EST. |
| | Interested parties can download the free softwareand join the "Eyebees March on Washington" swarm under the category of "The Rally". |
| | Basically,swarming allows you can see the live, direct movement across the web of all the parties in your swarm. With a critical mass, the event becomes slightly phantasmagoric as scores of eyebees emerge to follow and expose each other's movement in a kind of whirring, serendipitous freeplay. |
| | Though it's in a somewhat somber mood that I offer the creation up as a space for the online world which opposes war to converge upon: a swarming field which allows them to display their mass union lividly and their call for peace in concert. There is perhaps not a more appropriate time for this application to have been completed. |
| | ... I would think you might be excited with just how the technology might serve to visualize an element of our social zeitgeist. It could be quite a moving sight. |
| | Too bad the download is Windows/IE-only at this point, 'cuz that leaves me out. But maybe the other 95% of ya'll can make this thing work. |
| | [Later...] John just told me "the source opens soon." That's good news. |
War logic
| | Last night (which it still is, as I'm writing this) I sat in the rocker out under the brightest full moon I've seen in years, wrapped in blankets with the kid falling asleep on my lap. Once he was out, I called Craig on the phone. It had been too long. Needed to check in about a bunch of topics. |
| | One of them, of course, was The War, and the often absurd rhetoric employed to justify it. |
| | Along those lines, Craig gave me a line so perfect I have to pass it along, even though Google says there are already 2230 pages on the Web with the same string: |
| | Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. |
| | The winds are up to 50mph now (had a hard time keeping those blankets on), and the lights just went brown for a moment. Might be a good time to wrap this for a few hours. |
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