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A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky - http://www.shirky.com/weblog...
Ben MacNeill, Floyd Davenport, Cliff Gerrish and 2 other people liked this
"It provides the output to the end user without any human supervisor checking it at the penultimate step; and these processes are eroding the previous institutional monopoly on the kind of authority we are used to in a number of public spheres, including the sphere of news." I can think of some other public spheres that fit the situation described.
- Kevin Gamble
These are the most dangerous posts, they always lead me to other readings that take my entire night. Currently reading Russell's paper on "Why I'm not a Christian", not quite sure how I got here, but considering where the Bible fits as an authoritative source. Interesting.
- Floyd Davenport
5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases - http://mashable.com/2009...
Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF, Brandon Titus, Floyd Davenport and rich phelps liked this
Watch a few of these videos and then tell me that Wave doesn't change everything.
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
It really challenges us to consider how this communication model might play out for Extension... opportunities. Right now with restructuring going on across the county, I keep thinking of communications with County Councils. Could be cool, if we could incorporate an assessment tool into Wave.
- Floyd Davenport
Wave doesn't change anything unless average people actually adopt it. All the use cases here are technical or geek in nature.
- Jason Huebel
I'm average and I use it. Might even be below average.
- Kevin Gamble
Comic for November 15, 2009 - http://dilbert.com/strips...
Taking notes?
- Floyd Davenport
always working on my social skills :-)
- jerobins
Google Trends for Websites: friendfeed.com, posterous.com - http://trends.google.com/website...
Mike Nencetti and Daniel J. Pritchett liked this
"Unsurprisingly, traffic to the Friendfeed site has plummeted since the acquisition in August. And Posterous now has nearly as much traffic." Might be time to move.
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
playing with posterous... easy and interesting
- Floyd Davenport
posterous is cool, but i don't see how it relates to FF exactly
- jerobins
It's just as good (and that is an issue) on the lifestreaming aspects. It's less good in creating groups and filtering.
- Kevin Gamble
Microsoft Education Competencies: All Competencies - http://www.microsoft.com/educati...
:( do you know something I don't know?
- Floyd Davenport
Meshing knowledge power and organizational power - http://www.extension.iastate.edu/mt...
Floyd Davenport and Kevin Gamble liked this
Understanding our strengths and working towards a common goal.
- Floyd Davenport
Looking forward to having my friends joing me in Wave. Hope the invites don't take too long to be sent.
Interested. :)
- Floyd Davenport
Does the Logic Model's focus on safe and measurable results discourage innovation and risk taking? I think so.
Sounds logical.
- Floyd Davenport
But when you have to prove your value through measurable results to keep funding, it makes since.
- Dwayne Watson
Dwayne-- not if it destroys your potential to be so much more.
- Kevin Gamble
Busy bodies, like control-freaks, like to make shit up. That's a rule to remember.
Hmmm, button pushed.
- Floyd Davenport
I think I've had enough now. Time to move on.
Wait, don't go...
- Floyd Davenport
How Twitter (and Facebook) solve problems partially - amix blog - http://amix.dk/blog...
jerobins, Kevin Gamble, Floyd Davenport and Ben MacNeill liked this
Very nice post... and timely too. I wonder how often you should apply the Pareto principle? 80%?
- Floyd Davenport
Just think how much you wouldn't do if you applied this principle? I'm also thinking that 80% of the cost is spent on trying to solve that last 20%.
- Kevin Gamble
from iPhone
Have experimented with Skype, drop.io, and Google Presentation for online presentations. Of the bunch-- drop.io appears to be the winner.
What was the winning feature?
- Floyd Davenport
present.io is pretty cool
- Floyd Davenport
I think it was the multiple file formats. The Sribd formats were pretty cool. The ability to comment. Google Presentation-- no audio. No support for multiple file formats. Skype-- The screen sharing, albeit in early beta was either slow or didn't work at all. Has the most potential though. Present.io -- Usable now. Need to see what the cost is for more than 10 people, however. Same with Skype-- need to know the cost for more than 25.
- Kevin Gamble
Looks like if you upgrade ($10/year) for one drop - more drops are cheaper, there is no limit for the number of people http://getsatisfaction.com/dropio...
- Dwayne Watson
@Dwayne-- wow, that is extremely reasonable.
- Kevin Gamble
Universities and Economic Growth - http://philip.greenspun.com/teachin...
Beth, Suzanne Dirkers, Jonathan Davis and 2 other people liked this
"In the face of massive technological advances, the most significant change that universities have made is removing their only quality control mechanism. Through tenure, the university now guarantees professors pay regardless of effectiveness."
- jerobins
from Bookmarklet
What will be the final driver for change?
- Floyd Davenport
@floyd - dropping in revenues i would assume
- jerobins
I don't think we should assume they will change. The newspapers and others in similar predicaments have not changed significantly. I don't think the current model is sustainable. So perhaps we will see a new leaner and cheaper approach from wholly new institutions? Apprenticeships sprinkled with some more formal learning? "I studied under..." There has to be something to replace the credentialing that will carry as much weight as the current system.
- Kevin Gamble
"I learned twitter from @k1v1n" diplomas are being designed for printing as we type
- jerobins
@jerobin -- there will be no diplomas in k1v1n's world. I might consider badges, however.
- Kevin Gamble
did someone say badgers? http://rambleon.org/2007...
- Jason Adam Young
@jason-- that was a classic. Thanks for the memories. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
- Kevin Gamble
Dads Are Key to Making Us Human | LiveScience - http://www.livescience.com/culture...
Jason Huebel, Zach Landes, CW™ and Meryn Stol liked this
"Some 95 percent of male mammals have little to no interaction with their children. Homo sapiens are one of the most notable exceptions, leading some scientists to think fatherhood is an important part of what makes us human."
- Jenny Morman
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"Kids also learn from fathers during a unique form of papa play. Unlike mothers, fathers tend to roughhouse with their children. "They rile them up, almost to the point that they are going to snap, and then calm them down," Geary said. This pattern teaches kids to control their emotions — a trait that garners them popularity among superiors and peers, he said."
- Jenny Morman
Good to know we are contributing. :)
- Floyd Davenport
a) Ah, is that why I can't control my emotions? b) that was a poorly worded headline. Despite my flaws, I do consider myself to be human. LOL
- LAST DAY OF WORK
I've lived here all my life but I'm getting less and less tolerant of North Carolina summers. Maybe it really is time to move to Oregon
You'll really enjoy the two weeks of summer in Oregon. The state mascot is a slug for good reason.
- Kevin Gamble
Just carry a little salt on you at all times.
- Floyd Davenport
Upstate NY has nice summers where you don't even need AC but you can't walk in the evening without swatting bugs, at least not where I was.
- Suzanne Dirkers
Ian Hickson on Codecs for the HTML 5 ‘audio’ and ‘video’ Tags - http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig...
My head hurts...
- Floyd Davenport
MIDI and animated GIFs FTW!
- jerobins
Weblog » Emergent Village » How Churches Are Like Record Labels and Newspapers - http://www.emergentvillage.com/weblog...
"The point really isn’t about Facebook, per se, but rather about how online “community” is challenging our assumptions about real world community."
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
I may have to go back and reread this...its late. Makes me think of "the church economy".
- Floyd Davenport
" There was a time where possession of a Bachelor of Theology degree put your near the top of the educated within a western society. But, today it is usually very unlikely that a pastor would be anywhere near being the most educated person in their congregation in most churches." I think this point is true for many organizations today. Expertise has become completely distributed-- and those excess cognitive cycles are being shared in a multitude of communities.
- Kevin Gamble
Kevin: Probably a bigger effect with theologians because they never studied anything that had anything to do with anything.
- Christopher A Carr
Heres a question for you, What if Twitter and Friendfeed disappeared forever? What would you do?
(jeff)isageek, April Russo (app103), Jemm and 21 other people liked this
Sleep more.
- ronin
Actually get some work done.
- Morton Fox
I have no idea - visit more forums? Nah
- martha
Use Facebook more.
- Robert Scoble
lol ronin :D
- vijay
haha me to Robert!
- TheHenry
identi.ca? or is that not in the spirit of the question :)
- Frankie Warren
use google reader and facebook
- Johnny
use IM & e-mail more
- karthick
go back to digg and reddit
- Chris Heath
Really increase my RSS feeds.
- Bonnie Foster
Write a FF clone.
- Brett Kelly
Facebook!
- Mona Nomura
Facebook still sucks though
- TheHenry
Good Idea Brett
- TheHenry
Cry... no wait, I'd ask Bret and Paul to rebuild it!!
- Susan Beebe
dig deeper for quality reads, keep up with my feeds. get off of my butt more...
- BEX
Probably Facebook
- Rodfather
See the outside world. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
oh too hard :D
- Mah/Mah
Find another one. If not, found another one. Real time RSS feed reading applications would make both a little less important. Then there is a Google for everything. Watch Google within an year.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
Drum my fingers until the release of Wave.
- Raphael, Raphael
I would write 10 times as many e-mails as I write these days...
- Berci Mesko, MD
Great responses!
- TheHenry
Do something productive
- Angus Burton
Find random internet stuff the hard way again.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Get more work done.
- Mike Child
I wouldn't notice, I post tweets to my own web server http://openmicroblogger.com/brian and they eventually end up at friendfeed, identi.ca, army.twit.tv and twitter [if those services are up]
- Brian Hendrickson
I made this into a blog post- http://www.thehenry.net/2009...
- TheHenry
dust off my twitter like code that I shelved when I discovered twitter and start spreading the word
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Go out in the garden.
- Ian Betteridge
Back to IRC :^)
- Nick B.
We'd wait for Google Wave. Same thing we do every night, Pinky.
- Brome
Gee.. I guess I'd keep on blinking and breathing..
- Sean
Go to Jaiku and Soup.io .... I already have that back up plan ready.
- Tim Young
I would bring my http://identi.ca profile back from the dead and possibly start my own micro-blogging platfrom a la Leo Laporte (and his Twit Army) on the http://laconi.ca open source micro-blogging platform.
- Garin Kilpatrick
I'd pretty sure someone would build a clone ;)
- Nicholas James
...spend more time on my blog, like I used to do, before Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook sucked that time away. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
@ronin +++++++
- Shevonne
Cry. A lot.
- Steven Perez
I'd miss all the great people I've met here, without a doubt. I would also hope that we'd find a way to keep in touch without FF.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
go and find you all somehow... it's not the service that is valuable, it's the people.
- Johnny Worthington
hard drugs and self-mutilation...and counted cross stitch, of course.
- Joe Silence is silent
All joking aside, I would probably turn more to Facebook... which I hardly ever used until TweetDeck gave me a tie to it.
- Floyd Davenport
I'd probably do way more Bookmarking... :)
- Aline Ohannessian
Clearly, not one of us knocked on wood after answering this question!
- Tim Young
A lot of people on twitter are saying I crashed friendfeed, because of this post. LOL! :)
- TheHenry
We have to blame SOMEONE. Might as well be you, haha. BTW, I spent the time FF was down over on Facebook. I guess it's a big reality that I might just spend time on FB instead of FF.
- Tim Young
haha Yeah, I guess. lol
- TheHenry
Probably get more work done...and spend more time on IRC and my favorite forum.
- April Russo (app103)
probably use facebook :)
- (jeff)isageek
@vcverbeke Nice iPod case. Not high on the to do list, but nice anyway
I don't know... its more odd or eccentric.
- Floyd Davenport
Good swim tonight. It took me longer as a very nice Japanese gentleman was wanting some swimming lessons. It was fun to have to explain.
You were very nice to oblige.
- Floyd Davenport
I suggested that he might want to try my pull float to take his legs out of the mix. He would have none of that. :)
- Kevin Gamble
Every second that Jon'n'Kate beats out Iran or #iranelection is another drop in my faith in humanity.
Amen, uh, I mean... I agree.
- Floyd Davenport
Bus factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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What do you call it when you are down to one bus driver?
- Floyd Davenport
That's like asking about the ground speed velocity of an unladen bus. It depends on whether the bus is a single-decker, a double-decker, or an articulated bus.
- Jason Adam Young
Y'all are on different flights for the junket? Just checking...
- Kevin Gamble
I'm assuming an articulated bus would absorb a percentage of force from impact?
- Floyd Davenport
That's an interesting question. I think it would depend on the angle of impact. Which way is the driver looking?
- Jason Adam Young
Indigo Girls – Galileo - http://www.last.fm/music...
Tried a shout out on last.fm... :) Joe Purdy rocks
- Floyd Davenport
I've been totally digging William Fitzsimmons lately, who comes up on the "Joe Purdy" station.
- Jason Adam Young
Gawker - You Don't Have a Right to Anonymity - Night jack - http://gawker.com/5292783...
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"But the decision to do so carries with it certain exceedingly obvious risks, and when the jig is up, it's best for anonybloggers to endure the scrutiny with dignity rather than complain that people who had no obligation or interest in preserving their anonymity have behaved as such."
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
And here's the deal... the jig will always be up. Where it's a nice notion the days of anonymity are over.
- Kevin Gamble
I'm Batman
- Floyd Davenport
@floyd-- I know that was hard for you, but it was the right thing to do.
- Kevin Gamble
Conway Twitty/Sam Moore – Rainy Night in Georgia - http://www.last.fm/music...
Conway Twitty lived in my home town for a while. I just remember his kids were my age and had really nice cars. :)
- Floyd Davenport
The Worst Business Model in the World (And What You Can Learn From It) - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque...
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"Wonga's about as disruptive as a zit."
- Kevin Gamble
Wow, who knew being a loan shark was legal?
- Dwayne Watson
well said, "designed to extract value — not create it."
- Floyd Davenport
Scammers gaming YouTube ratings for profit | Security Central - InfoWorld - http://www.infoworld.com/d...
news article about ratings at youtube (traffic)
- Jason Adam Young
<sigh>
- Floyd Davenport
Who's your favorite screencaster? I like @molzy at demogirl.com. A couple of other favorites are @bwana and @waynesutton.
Love @molzy tag line... :)
- Floyd Davenport
@floyd-- "Screenshots Suck!" That one?
- Kevin Gamble
Thanks Kevin!
- Bwana ☠
Can $890,000 Make MediaWiki Useful? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Jason Adam Young liked this
"Though only a fraction of what's in store, the work done so far is showing real promise not just for Wikipedia's future, but for MediaWiki in all instances. In a down economy, a new-and-improved MediaWiki could likely compete with more expensive and cumbersome enterprise collaboration solutions." And to think it took almost a million dollars. Amazing!
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
And still no WYSIWYG editor-- there's a lesson here.
- Kevin Gamble
I still think and hope there is a reasonable compromise.
- Floyd Davenport
@floyd-- compromise for what in particular?
- Kevin Gamble
@k1v1n, data portability and UI (I'm still not a fan of wiki syntax). Or perhaps there are other issues at stake?
- Floyd Davenport
@floyd-- those are good. I'm with you.
- Kevin Gamble
Penelope - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Better than I thought it would be... :)
- Floyd Davenport
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