Month: November 2003

Do You Skype ? – Skype – From those whacky people that brought you peer to peer file-sharing via Kazaa in the wake of Napster, a peer-to-peer, free, international, internet, voice and text, PC phone service – dead simple and it works – remarkably well, no-delay and crystal clear. Noticed cropping up on several blogger pages, then noticed Stuart Henshall had a link to his own experimental Bloggers on Skype page, to create a community of bloggers connected by Skype. Like anything peer-to-peer it’s going to need a critical mass of subscribers to be effective – but it’s free while stocks last.

Added the links to my side-bar. Let’s see if this takes off. What have you got to lose ?

Picked up Jack Vinson’s blog [Knowledge Jolt with Jack] from a backtrack link. Some interesting knowledge management stuff with common chemical engineering heritage. Great set of links in his blogroll, beyond the usual KM’ers, including for example …

Hal Macomber’s blog [Reforming Project Management] has this Insead paper on Uncertainty and Chaos on Project Management.

Introducing New Ideas Into Organisations – Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising at Uni of North Carolina [via Spike Hall] have a paper (draft of a book) that intrigues me. Partly this is because introducing change into organisations was the subject of a dissertation I wrote ealier, and partly because I am in the middle of a long process to introduce a novel idea into an organisation.

The clincher was seeing the problem of blurring the distinction between the idea and the means of its introduction. Particularly severe in the case above because the idea is about “patterns” as means of introducing – well – ideas ! Stangely this recognition of McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message” even turned up in the day job recently.

As We Know It – Paul Kelly’s blog is always a good intelligent read even if I don’t often blog specific links. Good one on recently deceased Neil Postman’s Technopoly. The whole Apollonian Posession series. The update on his necessary hype blog from earlier. Go have a read. (Envy blogging – linking to things you wish you’d written yourself ?)