Links last week – 080615

The following is a selection of links collected from 9th to 15th June. Shared via Google Reader, FriendFeed and Twitter. Organised roughly by library category: Systems and the elements – People, Information and Technology.

Theme for this week? Quality. Some outstanding posts. They must have put something in the water…

Systems

• The Law Goes Open Source (and about time) – http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2008/0630/070.html
• Zoho’s recruitment process (more human than most HR depts) – http://blogs.zoho.com/general/how-we-recruit-on-formal-credentials-vs-experience-based-education/
• Heart Surgeons as Video Gamers – http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20873/
• Enterprise self-sabotage – http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1269-Enterprise-self-sabotage?source=RSS
• Birmingham City on Second Life (why oh why oh why…) – http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/06/birmingham-mash.html
• An interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter (author of Godel, Escher, Bach) – http://tal.forum2.org/hofstadter_interview
• The way we read: interview with Jeff Bezos (Amazon) – http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121261272441346269.html?mod=2_1571_leftbox
• Eight years of wrongness (sober reading of MSFT performance) – http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html
• The context of error – http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/06/the_context_of_error.php

People (and cognition)

• Scenius, like genius but embededed in the scene or community – http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/scenius_or_comm.php
• Consciousness happens between the panels – http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/06/consciousness_happen.html
• The Ultimate Source (debating free will when making decisions) – http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-ultimate-so.html
• Trying to succeed versus trying not to fail (great advice!) – http://culturaloffering.com/2008/06/13/trying-to-succeed-versus-trying-not-to-fail.aspx
• How to be interesting – http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html
• Stop trying to remember things on the tip of your tongue – http://lifehacker.com/395834/stop-trying-to-remember-things-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue

Information (and process)

• Visualisation for dynamic data sets – http://egimenez.com/2008/06/visualization-for-dynamic-data-sets.html
• Lost in Email, Tech Firms Face Self-made Beast – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/technology/14email.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
• Internet Skimming: Attention Deficit or Time Management (response to Nick Carr’s latest soundbite: Is Google making us stupid) – http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/internet-skimming-attention-deficit-or-time-management/
• Change the algorithm, not the dataset (when analysing large volumes, simplicity works a.k.a. why SVMs fail – as they did in SharePoint…) – http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/change-the-algorithm-not-the-dataset.html
• A call for data minimisation – http://ntouk.com/?view=plink&id=370
• The architecture of serendipity – http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/09/the-architecture-of-serendipity/

Technology

• Working Fast on Office 2.0 (Scoble interviews Chris Capossela) – http://scobleizer.com/2008/06/13/working-fast-on-office-20/
• Open up Google Docs? – http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/13/open-up-google-docs/
• The Enterprise 2.0 mishmash of muddle – http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9967819-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
• Where are we in the Enterprise 2.0 wave – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise20_wave.php
• The Three Levels of Cloud Computing – http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/06/11/the-three-levels-of-cloud-computing.aspx
• Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote in 60 seconds – http://www.mahalodaily.com/2008/06/10/md139-steve-jobs-wwdc-keynote-in-60-seconds/
• Ghosts of the last century (1999 MS doc on DNS) – http://ntouk.com/?view=plink&id=372
• Office 2007 deployment resources for end users – http://blogs.msdn.com/ianpal/archive/2008/06/10/office-2007-deployment-resources-for-end-users.aspx
• Google makes RSS embedding easy – http://lifehacker.com/395354/google-makes-rss-embedding-easy

Search

• Don’t end your URLs with .exe (Google SEO tip) – http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dont-end-your-urls-with-exe/
• How Google measures search quality – http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/how-google-measures-search-quality.html
• Download Google Trends to a spreadsheet – http://lifehacker.com/395734/download-google-trends-to-a-spreadsheet
• How Google handles duplicate content due to scrapers – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html
• JD Blog post: Microsoft Search Workshop Part 1 – http://www.joiningdots.net/blog/2008/06/microsoft-search-workshop-part-1.html
• JD blog post: Microsoft Search Workshop Part 2a – http://www.joiningdots.net/blog/2008/06/microsoft-search-workshop-part-2a.html

SharePoint

• New SharePoint Developer resources – http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/default.aspx
• SharePoint development on VS2008 (resource links) – http://blogs.msdn.com/nijain/archive/2008/06/09/sharepoint-development-on-vs2008.aspx
• Show your data in a tag cloud with XPath expressions – http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/06/12/show-your-data-in-a-tag-cloud-with-xpath-expressions.aspx
• Visio stencils for SharePoint – http://blogs.msdn.com/echarran/archive/2008/06/09/great-visio-stencils-for-sharepoint.aspx

And finally, funny video of the week. For anyone who thinks they can/should control social networks and the conversations that take place within them. It will be as easy as herding cats…

Link to Herding Cats on YouTube

Closing comment. If you watched the full video, you’ll know from the end that it is an advert for EDS. The mistake EDS made? Any IT company can slice off the closing logo and you’d never know. IBM got it right by introducing the blue border top and bottom throughout their ads.