The Department of Defense News Releases feed allows technology to present a view of the the Iraq War that news does not. This feed contains the public press releases of the names of the casulties in Iraq and Afghanistan. I for one find this feed to be filled with nothing but loss and sorrow. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'f4t'
Can you serve others better than you serve yourself
June 27th, 2007 No Comments
I have thought about this a great deal. The degrees of abstraction are endless. I have thought about it from a systematic perspective, from a social perspective, from a business perspective and so on. The answer I come to consistently is NO. Now let me explain.
The guiding point is: [...]
Tags: f4t · rant · systems · Technology
Big Mac vs a Book
June 11th, 2007 No Comments
You can get a Big Mac 24 hrs day but our local library closes at 8pm.
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Continuity of Experience Rule of Thumb
April 26th, 2007 No Comments
A provider cannot deliver a continuity of experience greater than the continuity of experience the provider has internally.
We are Enron
December 25th, 2006 No Comments
The financial statement of the United States of America was released on December 15. The best explanation I have seen can be found here. The report is put out by David Walker the Comptroller of the United States of America. I have seen him speak on CSPAN and he is very direct about [...]
Under Communication Limits our Effectiveness
September 28th, 2006 No Comments
Why do we have so many meetings that have few observable results?
Simply.
Under communication creates over congregation.
We have so many meetings because the participants spend a great deal of time and effort removing ambiguity and aligning expectations. The ambiguity and misaligned expectation are the symptoms of to little communication. Face to face communication [...]
Tags: communication · effectiveness · f4t · management
To Delete (private) or Not To Delete (not private)..
August 18th, 2006 No Comments
That is the question, is it private or not private, or is it even your data. This all, in an interesting article about search history and how it should be handled (via WSJ).
John Battelle thinks the search engines should take a stronger position.
The Attention Trust lays out the principles that customers should require of their [...]
Tags: attention · f4t · John-Battelle · privacy · search
Is it just me
August 14th, 2006 No Comments
In San Diego I never see Banks showing the time and the temperature. It may just be a Midwest thing, something for us to complain about, no time or the weather. Or in San Diego, The temperature is perfect and who cares what time it is, it’s just now.
Thinking about the Long tail (Core Dump)
August 1st, 2006 No Comments
I was listening to the Resignation Gang (Part 3) and was interested in the arguments around how people like to get their news and inversion of the network. I have a couple questions running through my mind:
Does the head of the Long tail exist because the market has been unable to deliver meaningful specialization?
Does [...]
Tags: cognitive-economy · f4t · Gillmor-Gang · long-tail