links for 2008-12-21
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The simple answer is that you make sure you establish a set of criteria when you launch the community and then judge success against these. The complex answer come with some of the ways in which you may judge success.
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The US web managed get transformational, releasing “Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government” for the incoming Obama administration.
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A twitter user (2drinksbehind – Mike Wilson of Denver) reports from the Denver air crash. Scarily immediate. Backed up by reasonable TwitPic evidence of being there?
links for 2008-12-19
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Really?! Wow …
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It’s like something out of Spooks – and a reminder of how delicate the web really is.
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Some great business advice for anyone trying to survive 2009: Simplify decision making to get developments to market fast; ‘collaborative capitalism’ via online networks; staying lean and focusing on disruptive innovation, not cloning. And many more, in 140 characters apiece.
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The myth originates from a 1970 US army survival manual which strongly recommended covering the head when it is cold, since “40 to 45 percent of body heat” is lost from the head. Fiction.
links for 2008-12-17
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Savour Everyday Moments, Avoid Comparisons, Put Money Low on the List … Is Science anti-capitalist? Well, who isn’t these days …
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Writes Nick Clegg: “People in this country are governed by processes that feel alien to their lives; by the puerile and archaic pantomime that so often dictates the Commons; by a system that keeps power hoarded in Whitehall.” I have to agree, politics seems ever less connected to the reality of life.
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Ditching Macworld is probably a reasonable step for Apple these days. But the lack of a final Steve Jobs keynote speech is more concerning and raised fears that his health is deteriorating …
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Real live magma – how cool? Or not!
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Keeping up with bloggers, updates from news sites, monitoring what’s being said, updates on changes to wikis and forums you collaborate on, and – republishing.
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A system planned to cost £55m and result in an overall savings of £112m will instead cost £121m and generate savings of a mere £40m. And apparently has a habit of issuing messages in German.
links for 2008-12-16
links for 2008-12-15
links for 2008-12-14
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I confess, I really like this series. Branagh is brilliant, and it’s shot incredibly stylishly. Also the stories are just that little bit different from the usual US/UK kind of thing and manages to keep you guessing that little bit better.
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Clive James on the drive for small countries to get international recognition. And by ‘international, we mean ‘America” as the new cultural cringe.
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Will Scotland devolve into its own .sco top level domain name?
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Jeremy Clarkson rants against the “Comply! Comply” regime sweeping he BBC. And he’s right – for once.
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