Just one day after my regestration at [[Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing]], Carl at [http://creativecrowds.com Creative Crowds] tipped me on the [http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/ Crowdsourcing Directory]. Uhmpf… awful lot of creative crowd work going on. A sheer infinite flurry of innovation sources. Howcome I only see this now? Wonderful! Diving into it because I will find the …
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Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing
[http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien ] [http://harryvandervelde.nl/ Harry van der Velde] tipped me on [http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien Cambrian House] some time ago. What a wonderful [http://wiki.aardrock.com/holacracy holacratic] way of [[Totally Unique Thoughts|turning thoughts into things]]. Community-owned—so “[http://wiki.aardrock.com/One_From_Many Dee Hock]” in its chaorganization. So co-creative. While preparing a proposal for [http://andarr.nl/ Andarr] this morning, I decided to sign up. Looking forward to …
Networked tools for teams
Just a quick note so I can find it back later: [http://www.projectconnections.com/knowhow/papers_list/index.html#networked-tools-for-teams Check out Networked Tools for Teams] at [http://www.projectconnections.com/ ProjectConnections]. Serendipitied over this while reading EEK’s blog on [http://www.eekim.com/blog/collaboration/tools/networkedtoolsemail.html Networked Tools and the Email Bottleneck]. Thanks Eugene.
ZFS on a laptop
[http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/ Eric Kustarz]’s excellent point in favour of using [http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zfs_on_a_laptop ZFS for your laptop] to create a ”’extremely reliable store for all your personal data”’. Sun Microsystems is really making a change here. Wish for ZFS to become abuntantly ubiquitous. Next: swap a disk a day with your friend to have a copy of your …
Check this out: cool Mac software from Amsterdam
[http://www.checkoutapp.com/ ] [http://www.versionsapp.com/ ] Via [http://developer.apple.com/business/macmarket/checkout.html Apple Developer Connection]: :The team of young developers at Amsterdam-based Madebysofa were frustrated as customers of a difficult point-of-sale (POS) application and a shortage of usable and affordable alternatives. So they decided to turn a problem into an opportunity, and set out to create their own application that worked …
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Continuous Partial Attention
My son [http://martijn.van.steenbergen.nl/ Martijn] recently started working for [http://q42.nl/ Q42]. One of his new colleagues pointed him to [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/continuous_partial_attention.php Continuous Partial Attention] on whether or not to unplug from the ever increasing flow of interruptions of the grid and focus on getting some work done. Becoming ever more agile—do some yoga. Thanks Martijn & colleague!
Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development
Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]: :[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]: “slugo writes ‘Internet search giant Google (GOOG) hopes to speed the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving away millions of dollars to people and companies that have what appear to be practical ways to get plug-in hybrid automobiles to market faster. :’While …
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One trillion euro for AardWagen
How about rewarding ”’one trillion euro”’ for the first international precompetitive collaboration that produces a vehicle in ten years that improves rather than poverishes our Earth in each and every step of it’s lifecycle? From original conception to design, manufacturing, use and destruction, AardWagen will make our environment better, more whole, embellish it, enrich it. …
Hoshin Kanri
Since 2000 or so, I regularly use a Hoshin sheet to jumpstart new projects or business. Hoshin Kanri has its roots in the 1950s when lectures by Dr. Deming and Dr. Juran in Japan taught the Deming Wheel (PDCA Cycle) and the need to focus on management processes for continuous improvement, including both Breakthrough Management …