Links last few weeks

OK, the title of the next one should be back to ‘links last week…’ 🙂

Before sharing links, we have a mini-announcement. Joining Dots has created a sub-site to focus on SharePoint and friends. The site – http://sharepointsharon.com/ – will have it’s own weekly newsletter to share links. SharePoint will still appear on Joining Dots, but in context of the focus here: connecting emerging trends and technologies that can influence how we live and learn. If you want to know more about SharePoint in detail, that’s what SharePoint.Sharon is for.

On with the link sharing. Usual topics: Systems, the Design of them and the individual dots – People, Information and Technology. Under Technology, clouds have been the most popular topic of conversation. Enjoy.

Systems

• Enterprise 2.0 – A nice simple definition of what Enterprise 2.0 is all about: http://jonmell.co.uk/social-software-basics/
• Bio data – brilliant short post highlighting how easily systems can fail when you replace human instincts with ‘fool proof’ processes that are anything but: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/09/bio_data.php
• Getting out is harder than getting in – nice reminder that we should pay as much attention to the exits as the attractions before we enter… http://workingsmarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/getting-out-is-harder-than-getting-in.html
• Latest Extinction is the Greatest – apparently, one that does not resemble any that have preceded it: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/latest-extincti.html

Design

• The Silo Lives! – Analysing coordination and communication within organisations. Where you sit matters: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6011.html
• Coping with speech noise – excellent report explaining how different types of noise can disrupt the work place and possible solutions: http://chatterblocker.com/whitepapers/conversational_distraction.html
• Lawrence of Arabia is dead, long live the crash helmet – fascinating example of how invention can arise from the most unexpected places: http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/09/lawrence_of_arabia_i.html

People

• Millenials demand a change in IT strategy – another article about the need to accept that social computing is today what email was in the early 1990s: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Careers&articleId=326407&taxonomyId=10&pageNumber=1
• Social Punshment: The “Bozo” Feature – a new role and a new issue is arising as social software goes mainstream: being a community manager and how to deal with troublemakers: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/09/01/the-bozo-feature/
• Memory trick shows brain organisation – how we pull together different items the what, who, where and when – to form a complete memory: http://www.brainmysteries.com/Research/Memory_Trick_Shows_Brain_Organization.asp
• Indulgence vs Regret – investing in future memories (do now or regret later, not to be confused with making the wrong choice – doing something is better than doing nothing): http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6008.html

Information

• Why Google isn’t enough – good article highlighing why enterprise search is a completely different challenge to Internet search: http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/19/cio-enterprise-search-tech-cio-cx_dw_0922search.html
• Pitfalls to avoid when designing forms – using live examples from the Internet (naturally, that means including Microsoft): http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-25-n60.html
• How can decision making be improved? Mixed feelings about including this one, I’m not a fan of ‘optimal’ decision making. Good things often result from accidents and mistakes… http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5976.html
• Finding the Titanic – an example of what’s possible when you DON’T use optimal decision-making 🙂 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0902

Technology

• The intelligent cloud – Google thinks about the future with clouds: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/intelligent-cloud.html
• Expanding the cloud – Amazon’s CTO talks about their approach to cloud-based services: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/09/expanding_the_cloud.html
• Cloud + Client – with Microsoft, it’s never just about the clouds, you’ve got to have your head in them 🙂 http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/09/27/cloud-client/
• Digg Database Architecture – interesting to see how Digg tackles data management: http://blog.digg.com/?p=213
• AutoCollage: nice tool from Microsoft Research, creating collages from your photos (nice complement to PhotoStory): http://research.microsoft.com/AutoCollage/Default.aspx
• The millenium clock and Neal Stephenson – article about the author (and I soooo wish I could have one of those clocks): http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/16-09/mf_stephenson

And finally, a video that everyone should watch. Whether you think you suffer from information overload or you tell people that information overload is not the problem:

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