there was once a childrens tv program called 'why dont you' that had the tag line 'switch off the television and go and do something less boring instead' - I hadn't realised until now that they were early pioneers of cognitive surplus generation
- Piers Jones
Sharepoint: Brutalist Concrete Architecture for the social media age.
- Adam Tinworth
I cannot warm to sharepoint at all, apparently there are sharepoint contractors out there making a mint with loads of new development, I just dont get it.
- Piers Jones
No. It seems to takle everything that is good and ineteresting about social media, strip it out, and hand you the skeleton that's left.
- Adam Tinworth
from twhirl
Now, let's calculate the number that are any good.
- Adam Tinworth
from twhirl
well 'according to me new book' here comes everybody, that would be the very strength of the internet right there, the ability to fail for free producing a whole world of rubbish but quite a few real gems. I quite liked the theory...
- Piers Jones
And, of course, one man's rubbish is another man's poison. Or something. :)
- Adam Tinworth
Those masters of the 'less is more' theory -37 signals - wonder what would happen if Gordon Ramsay took charge of your software development.
- Piers Jones
A professor at Cambridge University has the idea of locating server farms near to sources of renewable energy. It takes up less carbon resource to transmit data than electricity.
- Piers Jones
i had similar thoughts and I'm going to stop myself even signing into social thing before I learn how to use this properly, jury is still out for me on whether this is tool overload or a useful aggregator thingy...
- Piers Jones