Link from Blogger. The above is a chapter of a book from “blogroots” on the business potential of blogging or klogging. Includes quotes from interview with John Robb. (See earlier klogging threads.) Blogroots are Meg Hourihan (megnut), Matt Haughey (wholelottanothing) , and Paul Bausch (onfocus). All part of the original team that created Blogger. Need [...]
Entries from July 2002
Blogging in Business
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July 27, 2002 at 2:17pm
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Capitalism Without Conscience
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July 27, 2002 at 2:00pm
by Psybertron
Common Dreams via Robot Wisdom. Another one spot on the mark. Interesting that the hand-wringing fall-out from 9/11/FBI, Enron / Andersens / WorldCom should spark this re-emergence of the blindingly obvious facts. If you insist on rational models (like accounting) you should not be surprised that the rationalisation of the irrational creates misinformation and misguided [...]
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Business Systems Don’t Work
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July 27, 2002 at 1:40pm
by Psybertron
Salon via Robot Wisdom. Another one to add to the thread, like the one on complexity of business solutions spotted earlier by Leon. Great work if you can get it. Business is so complex that systems are unlikely to model them very well, but being so complex, it’s unlikely anyone will notice that they don’t [...]
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Determinism and Free Will
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July 25, 2002 at 4:42pm
by Psybertron
Thread on comp.ai.philosophyAge old basic question but a long and interesting thread getting into many relevant subjects and a source of links. Entropy, complexity, micro / macro scales, quantum mechanics and much more.
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Back on-line Monday 22nd July (Not)
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July 19, 2002 at 11:02am
by Psybertron
Latest update from Tiscali. Their web server and ftp server migrations wereout of synch, and my account details are yet to be uploaded to the new ftpserver. That means the visible web pages are now over a month behind theposted blog pages. Sounded like a firm promise this time – fingers crossed.Updated 25th – ftp [...]
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E-Mail posting facility established
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July 18, 2002 at 9:34pm
by Psybertron
A promising feature from BloggerPro
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Significant Upgrade to Site Structure
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July 18, 2002 at 9:18pm
by Psybertron
Getting ready for new domain launch.
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Jorn’s Pragmatic Web
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July 18, 2002 at 6:03pm
by Psybertron
Simple ideas and proposed conventions for “text buttons” for linking html documents.
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What your doctor doesn’t know could kill you
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July 18, 2002 at 5:42pm
by Psybertron
Boston Globe article on PKC (via Jorn)And Jorn’s page of Lawrence Weed’s Problem-Knowledge Couplers biographical links.Another interesting link from Jorn. A variation of the medical expert diagnostic system which, rather than following pre-structured diagnostic sequences of questions, suspends analysis until after asking many questions then seeks to find patterns and relationships. Interesting evidence of effectiveness, [...]
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IQ vs Tacit Knowledge
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July 18, 2002 at 4:54pm
by Psybertron
New Yorker arcticle via Jorn.Interesting comparison of individual IQ vs tacit knowledge and inter-personal relationships and correlations with “performance” of organisations, with some powerful evidence from McKinsey and connections with Enron / Andersens downfall. No suprises to discover it’s not what you know but who you know that matters, but its good to have better [...]
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Site Down – Back up, or is that down ?
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July 17, 2002 at 6:08pm
by Psybertron
Whahay !! I’m back up again.7 days off line, but it looks like Tiscali has completed their server migration.Oops spoke too soon ! Still not there. This does not look good for Tiscali.
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Pragmatic (Humorous) Philosophy
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July 11, 2002 at 12:51pm
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Every time I mention a philosopher (as I often do on Psybertron) I am reminded of one collaborator (Daniel Rivers-Moore) who confided that he was in fact a philosopher by training, and almost regretted sowing (early phase) Wittgesteinian seeds in the minds of a modelling group. I am also haunted by this witty correspondence of [...]
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Minkow’s Fraudodynamics
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July 11, 2002 at 11:16am
by Psybertron
I Was a Teenage Fraudster in the Guardian today.Barry Minkow eventually imprisoned for a major wall street fraud, is “poacher turned gamekeper”, interviewed on BBC Today this morning. Describes small mis-representations leading to larger frauds, and an environment of collusion within business, even including ostensibly “independant” auditors. Makes explicit reference to the big accountancy firms [...]
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Kurzweil – Accelerating Intelligence
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July 10, 2002 at 9:07pm
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Ray Kurzweil (AI) Accelerating IntelligenceOverhyped AI site of “extraordinary”, “revolutionary”, “prophetic vision” (sic), but contributory big thinkers include the likes of Richard Dawkins, Arthur C Clarke, Richard Feynman, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Marvin Minsky, Roger Schank (of Jorn infamy ?), Murray Gell-Mann, Martin Rees, Roger Penrose, Steve Jones, Paul Davies, Stephen Jay Gould and more. [...]
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Site Down – Drama
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July 10, 2002 at 8:57pm
by Psybertron
Site Down – Many ApologiesIf you can read this it must be fixed, but as you may be aware my current ISP (ukgateway) was recently acquired by Tiscali. I guess they’re in a process of re-building servers and upgrading / replacing software, but this is the second unannounced outage – the last one a fortnight [...]
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AI Reboots – Cyc / MIT
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July 9, 2002 at 6:25pm
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Some good links from the AI Reboots – MIT Article already blogged earlier.(All very MIT-centric of course.)Cycorp – exploiting Cyc – Foundation for common ssense knowledge (sic)HAL’s Legacy – oft quoted in comp.ai groups.Marvin Minsky’s home page – “In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning” [...]
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Galbraith – Enron and the like Beyond Monitoring
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July 9, 2002 at 2:32pm
by Psybertron
Re-read the JK Galbraith article. (Blogged earlier)“[Corporations like Enron have] grown so complex that [they are] now almost beyond monitoring …. there was almost no criticism from the shareholders ? the owners, [until they collapsed.]“. Galbraith detects something of the conspiracy of silence he recounted so memorably in his book The Great Crash: 1929, first [...]
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Happiness Breaking Through – Noonan
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July 9, 2002 at 1:42pm
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Economist and WSJ Peggy NoonanReviews of Blogging linked from Blogger itself.The words of a friend of Samuel Johnson quoted by Ms Noonan“I meant to be a philosopher, but happiness kept breaking through.” [Post-note - I notice Ms Noonan is part of the team that creates West Wing, the award winning US White House spoof drama. [...]
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Temporal Intelligence
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July 9, 2002 at 1:23pm
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Temporal Intelligence / AI RebootsGood site with some interesting views on “intelligence” in this context.Also a link to an MIT article on AI in the 21st century.From Traveller / EightWings / Louis Savain on comp.ai.philosophy
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The Other Ian Glendinning
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July 8, 2002 at 7:10pm
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It had to happen one day.Searches for Ian Glendinning often hit the wrong one (see the “Who is Ian anyway ?” link), however, today I found a link explicitly to me that unfortunately hits the other one. Unlucky Ron.
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Intuitive Knowledge or Explicit Instruction
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July 8, 2002 at 7:07pm
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Link via John Robb’s Radio WebLog from NY Times.Russian Pilot Had Conflicting Orders. A Russian pilot received contradictory instructions before crashing into a cargo plane over Germany last week, German investigators said today after reviewing voice recorders from the two jets. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: International] Interesting says John Robb. “I once [...]
