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Crowdsourcing Directory

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 fertile ground where my, sometimes wild and big ideas, are valued and will flourish.

Thanks for the pointer Carl!

P.S. Appears that Carl sends email from the [http://innovationfactory.nl/ Innovation Factory]. Another interesting company that I only now discoverd.

P.S. 2 Seems they’re working hard to realize [http://creativecrowds.com Creative Crowds] and [http://creativecapitals.org/ Creative Capitals]

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english smart software typography

ScriptCloud for your tag cloud

Browsing [http://net-savvy.com/executive/tools/visual-text-analysis.html visual text analysis] led me to [http://eagereyes.org/blog/visualization-sets-information-free.html Visualizations Sets Information Free] which in turn made me stumble over [http://scriptcloud.screenplayanalytics.com/ ScriptCloud] lets you create content clouds (like a ”’tag cloud”’) from your screenplay.

[http://scriptcloud.screenplayanalytics.com/ ScriptCloud logo] If a tag cloud means nothing to you, [http://scriptcloud.screenplayanalytics.com/faq.php check out the FAQs] to find out more. Scriptcloud is intended for screenplays but you can upload any kind of text file.

And so I did. Picked my CV, saved as plain text and fed it ti Scriptcloud. The result is obvious. Too bad you can’t click on the tags.

[http://tagcrowd.com/ TagCrowd] is another interesting similar tool.

Want this to work at (subsets of) my wiki or forum; and select my own font; and set the rectangular area to render it in; and have it as a plug-in or extension to any CMS.

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Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing

[http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing]

[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 participation.

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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.

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english innovation open source peer-to-peer smart software

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 data at a remote place when you’re house burns down or someone drops a bomb.

Beyond that: the [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wizard_Rabbit_Treasurer Wizard, Rabbit and Treasurer] keep all your data safe in sync in a fully distributed self-organizing and self-healing peer-to-peer network.

Worryfree and effortless data.

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english mac smart software

Check this out: cool Mac software from Amsterdam

[http://www.checkoutapp.com/ Check Out App]
[http://www.versionsapp.com/ Made by Sofa]
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 the way they wanted. Their product is Checkout, is a powerful, friendly, and affordable POS system capable of running a small- to medium-size store, and is written exclusively for Mac OS X.

They also create a neat Mac OS X Subversion client.

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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!

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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 many people don’t associate Google with energy, analysts say the fit isn’t all that unnatural. Renewable energy, unlike coal or nuclear, will likely come from thousands or tens of thousands of different locations. Analysts have long said that one of the big challenges will be managing that flow into and out of the nation’s electric grid, and that companies that manage the flow of information are well placed to handle that task.

:[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Read more of this story] at Slashdot.

[[One trillion euro for AardWagen]] may fuel this initiative.

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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. This requires creative thought and action across the board and must shatter many political and economical barriers.

[[Google already Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]]. Who’s next to join all powers in a single large worldwide fund to develop AardWagen in an open tournament.

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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 and Daily Management.

Hoshin Kanri is an organising framework for strategic management. It is concerned with four primary tasks:

*it focuses organisation attention on corporate direction by setting, annually, a vital few strategic priorities;
*it aligns these with local plans and programmes;
*it integrates them with daily management, and
*it provides for a structured review of their progress.

More and more companies recognized its value over the 30 years of refinement. Today, ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way The Toyota Way]”’ resonates very well with the practices of ”’Agile Software Development”’. Joined with ”'[http://martien.aardrock.com/tag/holacracy holacratic] principles”’, government and practices it grows into a very effective leadership instrument.

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Hoshin Read more on Hoshin Kanri] on AardRock’s Wiki.