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How to create Hot Crowds

[http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=57 How to create Hot Crowds]: Hot Groups are high performing teams with six characteristics:

#Hot teams are highly dedicated to end results and are enthusiastic
#They thrive on ridiculous deadlines and high hurdles to take
#They are irreverent and non-hierarchical, playing around and having fun
#They are made up of widely divergent disciplines and abilities
#They use an open and eclectic workspace
#Hot teams connect to the outside world and look for solutions outside themselves

(Via [http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com CrowdsourcingDirectory].)

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chaorganization english network

Quantum Theory of Trust

The power and kinds of social networks: [http://www.drkaren.us/ Karen Stephenson] writes about it in [http://www.netform.com/html/s%2Bb%20article.pdf Quantum Theory Of Trust].

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Network Get the big picture of social networks]. Oh, and while we’re on trust and reputation, the [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wizard_Rabbit_Treasurer Wizard, Rabbit and Treasurer] will be a good read as well I suppose.

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chaordic computing english science smart software

The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs

[http://zicht.com Harry van der Velde] will like this one…

[http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/141716831/building-better.html The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs]: “Self-replicating bridges might be more robust, but also weirder looking, than the nearly magical pieces of civil engineering that human beings come up with.

(Via [http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml Wired News].)

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book english music smart software

The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites

[http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheLongTail/~3/141612509/the-coolest-new.html The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites]:

Like any other startup, we’ve adding new feature nearly every day on [http://booktour.com BookTour]. But my favorite is one that we added last week. You know the music services, such as [http://www.sonicliving.com Sonic Living], that’can scan your iTunes or LastFM’libraries and then automatically tell you (via emails or RSS feeds) when’your favorite’bands are coming to your town? We wanted to do the same for books and authors.

So now if you go to your Profile page on BookTour.com, you can enter your Amazon login info and we’ll automatically look up all the books you’ve ever bought and add those authors to the list you’re tracking. If any of them are coming to your area to give talks or other appearances, we’ll send you an email or include it in your RSS feed. And you can always use the service to ping those authors and ask them to come speak to your company, organization or just book club while they’re in town.

[http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/WindowsLiveWriter/bt.png bt]

How cool is that?!

(BTW, we don’t keep your Amazon info. The site just opens a secure connection to Amazon, fetches the books from your order history, and then closes the connection and discards the login info. That means you have to enter’the login’again when you want to refresh your favorites list in a few months, but it also ensures that your login information can never be compromised.)

(Via [http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/ The Long Tail].

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aarde english whole world

Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City

A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms—all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert.

This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is envisaged for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When complete, in 2009, it will be the nearest thing yet to a zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Using the traditional planning principles of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve sustainable development, this six sq km expanse will house an energy, science and technology community.

[http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=38187 Read the full story at Inter Press Service].

Via Deepak Chopra’s [http://www.anhglobal.org/ Alliance for a New Humanity]

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aarde english open source whole world

Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology

Freeman Dyson, I love you!
:…the rules of ”’Open Source sharing”’ will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good old days before separate species and intellectual property were invented.

[http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/30/1927205&from=rss Read more of this story] at [http://slashdot.org/ Shashdot].

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aarde architecture chaordic computing conscious computing consciousness english spiritual whole world

Conscious Computing

Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes.

Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource consumption in the complete life cycle of a network of computers has become the focus of attention. I call this ”’conscious computing”’ across the board—and my dream is to have a ”’Conscious Computing Award”’ for those solutions, projects and companies that will startle our view in this area and provide unprecedented breakthroughs in the area of smart spiritual software.

I will start tracking ideas, initiatives, programs, projects and inspirational sources on this topic. Here are the first two:
#[http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/power-plays.ars Power Plays: How power consumption will shape the future of computing] on how Intel is using smart self-organizing principles on chip-level to maximize the performance/power ratio in favour of green or ”’conscious computing”’.
#Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz on [http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/size_matters Switching Subjects] to drastically simplify cabling and reducing power and cooling requirements in massive data centers in their ”’Project Magnum”’ and ”'[http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/SunConstellationPreview.jsp Constellation System]”’. Good that Sun has ”’Andy Bechtolsheim”’ back on board. Do you know that [[Andy missed his plane and changed his name]]?

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Aarde tag cloud

Using [[ScriptCloud for your tag cloud|ScriptCloud]]’s output, I created a tag cloud for the text in the [http://wiki.aardsource.org/Bus_Tour/Vision/Central_Station Aarde Vision Bus Tour]. Had to fiddle around with the style sheet a bit. The links do nothing, though. Here it is…

Here’s what I did:
#Include ScriptCloud’s tagline.css into style.css of weblog theme.
#Save all text into a plain and simple text file.
#Upload it to ScriptCloud.
#View generated tag cloud, and open HTML source.
#Copy just the tag cloud HTML and strip it from all the color settings.
#Paste result into body of blog entry.

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english smart software

The long tail of software

[http://www.thelongtail.com/ The Long Tail Graph

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Evolvability

For extremely profitable price/quality ratios, aim to ”’maximize evolvability”’ for all stakeholders by:

  • minimizing the efforts to develop, release and maintain your product;
  • maximizing scalability;
  • maximizing innovation to happen elsewhere—make it open source and use Crowdsourcing Directory;
  • maximizing adopting & setting open standards for quality, processes and technology.
  • using a tolerant development process;
  • being open and responsive to easy changes as project progresses

The evolvability quality requirement transcends and includes all other “ilities” like performance, scalability, maintanability, reliability, resilience, and security.