8 years ago(!) – referring to Feedster aggregating RSS feeds which may themselves include their own feeds, I was already referring to a previous reference, presumably from pre-blogging days with cross-posting between email bulletin boards – I suggested the web could spiral into being clogged up with subscriptions that automated my feed from you, if [...]
Entries from July 2011
Incestuous Feeds
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July 20, 2011 at 5:04am
by Psybertron
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Parallel Decision Making
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July 19, 2011 at 9:12am
by Psybertron
Can’t help seeing parallels between NotW Phone Hacking (#hackgate) affair and the BP Macondo disaster. It’s about management communications. Clearly multiple layers of management are there to share the load, not to communicate upwards (beyond reporting) every piece of information and decision with which they are involved. They are employed to “deal with it”, and [...]
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Crap Decision
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July 19, 2011 at 8:38am
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I’ve been listening to the parliamentary committee interviews of the Police in connection with the #hackgate affair. Stephenson the recently resigned commissioner, Fedorcio the director of public affairs, and Yates the recently resigned deputy chief police officer. I have to say they all sound professional and their integrity pretty sound. Yates had already stated the [...]
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Haidt’s Happiness
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July 18, 2011 at 9:50am
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An atheist and a practitioner of positive psychology, Jonathan Haidt’s “The Happiness Hypothesis” reads at times like a spiritual self-help book, and in a sense it is, but it is supported by a mass of academic and scientific references. The Psybertron agenda has been on evolutionary psychology as a description of both epistemology (what is [...]
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Reading Update
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July 13, 2011 at 4:11am
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Just finished two quite different books recently. Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil, and first, Empire of the Clouds – When Britain’s Aircraft Ruled the World, by James Hamilton-Paterson. The latter is a memoir of British aviation since the second world war, constructed mainly from anecdotes and memoirs of test pilots involved. Partly it’s a litany [...]
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Caution is the Bigger Risk
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July 11, 2011 at 7:52am
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Interesting piece on the balance of well-being and risk. David Pottinger post on BBC & Cambridge Uni experiment on risk taking. Thanks to David Gurteen’s tweets again.
Mediated Tweeting
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July 7, 2011 at 5:42am
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I have an agenda that says free social communication isn’t all good, in fact it can be positively counter-productive. Quality communications, leading to quality learning, decisions and actions, benefit from editorial control and goal-directed mediation. Google doesn’t make teachers redundant. Interesting today to see TechCrunch extolling Twitter coming of age – as a vehicle for [...]
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What’s Happening Here ?
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July 6, 2011 at 2:22am
by Psybertron
Adversarial binary arguments are always motivated.
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Evolutionary Levels of Social Media
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July 5, 2011 at 4:36am
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With all the buzz around Google+ vs Facebook, etc (see previous post) thanks to David Gurteen for this Bill Ives link to a paper / book chapter from Forrester Research. Nothing new under the sun, but paying 500 bucks for the privilege of reading the results does focus the mind. Shock horror – it’s not possible [...]
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Google+ buzz = new Wave ?
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July 5, 2011 at 3:27am
by Psybertron
I’m liking the buzz around Google+, and from seeing only the free “tour” (no working account yet), I like the fact it’s the relationship and not the person that is the focus, as was the case with Wave. Groups (circles, hangouts, huddles, etc.) arise from the nature of the relationships, not limited to the crass [...]
