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Basic Meme / Memetics ReferencesThe Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins (originated term meme)The Meme Machine – Susan Blackmore Alternative Chaos ReferenceChaos – James Gleick

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Does God Play Dice – The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian StewartPublished Penguin Mathematics 1989 / 1990, Chaos reference workFundamentals – quasi-periodicity, strange attractors and Poincarre sections.Lots of good further reading references too.

RDF, XML Schema and XML Meta-DataRef : “Professional XML Meta Data” by Daniel Rivers-Moore, Ann Wrightson, et al pub WROX.See RDF-SyntaxSee RDF-SchemaECM-Associations / Gellish-facts / ProcessML-Templates / Sentences(tm) / RDF-statements – common ground.

AT LAST – Chaos and Complexity theories reach the public consciousness as issues for management of organisations.BBC Radio 4 Today – Analyst looking at Health Service organisation identifies these issues as blockers to predictable behaviour.Tiny inputs – Large unpredicted outcomes, yes, but equallyEnormous inputs – No predictable outcomes.Relevant message – Buisness rules for information management … Continue reading “Chaos & Complexity in Public Organisations”

The Learning Machine ChallengeSpin off from the AI Forum Management Information Systems QuarterlyAcademic & Research Journal on MISIncludes “Qualitative” scope amongst more traditional aspects.Has Mike Myers (Uni of Auckland) on the editorial board.Previously associated with Geoff Walsham (Judge Institute, Cambridge)

Remember A.C. Clarke’s 3 stages of reaction to technological breakthroughs: (a) It’s completely impossible.(b) OK, it’s possible, but it’s practically useless.(c) Well, I said it was a good idea all along. And Douglas Adams (Quoting Bran Ferren) – “Technology is the stuff that doesn’t work yet”

Living with Windows XP XP: Released last week BBC News Online’s Paul Rocks explains what it has been like living with an evaluation copy of Windows XP for the last couple of months. (Text copy deleted) My six weeks with XP have been pleasurable. No system crashes, no major problems and no phone-a-friend to sort … Continue reading “Windows XP”