August 2003 archives

August 29, 2003 by Patti

The quiet

Yesterday morning, Charter Communications’ Internet service failed across the state of Massachusetts. The web was gone, but the lights were on. So I could work, disconnected, but in a way could not. I went outside to check on the status of the pruning project I’d got a gardener in to help with. I told him, [...]

August 29, 2003 by Patti

Swarmth

I can’t stop thinking about Stowe Boyd’s article on swarm intelligence in July’s Darwin magazine. It just opened a whole new way of thinking about networks in organizations, learning, and adaptability. It’s a great primer on swarming, and the logic of “bottoms-up” decision-making. Consider: “Bottom-up decision-making is based on a belief in adaptation: a large [...]

August 27, 2003 by Patti

SNA and Project Management

I’ve had the pleasure lately of working with Dennis Smith, an expert in project leadership. As he has become more familiar with SNA, he has become more and more convinced that it can be a valuable tool in assessing the health of a project. He just added a note to his web site today on [...]

August 26, 2003 by Patti

Beautiful Maps

From a post on Ryze today, a link to the KartOO visual meta search engine. Not only does it very quickly draw a map of the connections among search results, it is also very visually appealing (at least to my taste).

August 22, 2003 by Patti

I’m skateblogging as fast as I can

Being a Star is really a workout. Tough questions from really smart people like Denham Grey. (He oughta be a star.) I’ve been skating through blogs looking things up, trying to find fresh things to contribute and have come across all sorts of great blogs. mamamusings: social software reading list is an entry I first [...]