Jahr: 2011

Seth Godin – Who will say go?: „Most people don’t believe they are capable of initiative. Initiating a project, a blog, a wikipedia article, a family journey. Initiating something even when you’re not putatitively in charge. At the same time, almost all people believe they are capable of editing, giving feedback or merely criticizing.“

Stéphane Croisier – The Rise of Personal Content Management (PCM): The Next Shadow IT?: „Perhaps your favorite ECM is guilty of having spent a bit too much time in the last 10 years to try to unify all your company content assets while completely stopping taking care of the individual employee needs?“ (Via Digital Asset…

Richard Padley – Integrating taxonomies with search: „Alongside a set of search results a search engine can provide a series of drill down categories which allow the user to refine their query and cut down the result set until they find the information they need. If properly structured faceted taxonomies have been used to tag…

Ilya Grigorik – Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr: „Salesforce, LinkedIn and just recently Twitter are all examples of large-scale Lucene deployments that many of us use on a day-to-day basis. Salesforce started with Lucene back in 2002 and today manages an 8TB+ index (~20 billion documents). […] iTunes is another notable user, said…

Gojko Adzic – Effect Mapping: „Effect Mapping is a game-changing technique for high level project visualization. It provides stakeholders and sponsors with an excellent level of visibility and helps to drive software projects towards delivering the right product with a high level of quality.“ From the paper [PDF]: „Why are we doing this? What is…

Fran – Serendipity and large video collections: „Serendipity is rarely of use to the asset manager, who wants to find exactly what they expect to find, but is a delight for the consumer or leisure searcher. People sometimes cite serendipity as a being a reason to abandon classification, but in my experience classification often enhances…

NYTimes.com – Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You: „Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the Freedom Box Foundation to organize the software.“ (Via Dave Winer.)

Jack Vinson – In a change, it isn’t your point of view that matters: „In the context of the stories, it was „spirit killing“ the people who were subjected to these changes when their point of view was not considered. Whenever a change is introduced, the people who have created the change are the most…

Chris Spagnuolo back in 2008 – Conformity, innovation, and progress: „Some time later, Asch conducted his experiments again. This time, when every one of the confederates voted for the wrong answer, one stood up and said “That’s wrong!”. The test subject then easily identified the correct answer. Adding one supporting partner greatly diminished the power…

Eric Ries – A month is fifteen weekends: „Think about that for a second. If only they had one more day. Think how valuable a single day is, when used to its maximum potential. And now think how casually we throw a day of work away, when it’s just one tiny part of a huge…