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The Law of Accelerating Returns
An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view.
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1
Patterns for Scripted Components
These patterns attempt to capture and describe the design decisions that lead to a successful use of scripts and scripting.
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http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/patterns/scripting
Seeing What's Next: Porter, Drucker and Christensen
An overview of Michael Porter's, Peter Drucker's, and Chris Christensen's approaches to innovation research.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2005/03/15.html#a1080
Stuck in the Middle: The Role of Infomediaries
Information intermediaries are facing revolutionary changes and threats, but the energy behind these changes is not new technologies, but a broad dissatisfaction by readers and viewers wi...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/03.html#a1099
Privacy and Technology
The cost of privacy becomes the cost of behaving in a way that reveals as little as possible about oneself.
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Privacy%20and%20Technology.html
Beyond Gutenberg
We are now at a point that we can start thinking of building an EventWeb – a web that uses events as the basic node rather than a document.
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http://jain.faculty.gatech.edu/blog/?id=jain_blog&no=278
Paving the information footpaths
It's easy to criticize information systems that fail to embrace sloppiness. It's much harder to explain how they should embrace it. Sloppiness is only a means to an end. In order to make ...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/04/19OPstrategic_1.html
RE: No more nails: making good technology choices
Improving technology choices is not about letting the "people who are good at technology are allowed to get on with things, and not be distracted by short term angles," as Bill says, but ...
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/05/re-no-more-nails-making-good.html
The Three Windows of Opportunity
The notion of a window that opens for a while and then closes highlights the fleeting nature of opportunities, where timing is everything. Too early can be as bad as too late.
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4835&t=entrepreneurship&iss=y
Review: A Possible Declining Trend for Worldwide Innovation, Heubner, 2005
Our brains are not only increasingly unable to engage in truly different classes of innovation, they seem to be increasingly unable to perceive the technology-driven innovation occurring ...
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http://accelerating.org/articles/huebnerinnovation.html
Entering a dark age of innovation
The point at which an extrapolation of his global innovation curve hits zero suggests we have already made 85 per cent of the technologies that are economically feasible.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7616
The Psychology Behind Common Investor Mistakes
An understanding of the psychological basis for these errors may help you avoid them and improve investment results. And in some cases, market-wide errors in perception or judgment can le...
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/the_psychology_.html
Learning to Pay Attention
We are surrounded by mediocrity and sameness and efficiency and noise that exhibit no integrity, dignity, subtlety [...]. And at the same time we are constantly barraged by assaults on ou...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/11.html#a1207
It will pay to be creative, nimble in the 'conceptual age'
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
Can Technorati Beat Google on Scalability?
The mountain of data Technorati is trying to climb is made up mostly of completely irrelevant information. Let me say that again. Completely. Irrelevant. In fact, it's worse than that—i...
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http://www.globelogger.com/item.php?id=440
Freakonomics and Complexity
Freakonomics [...] challenges any assumptions about causal relationships (since those assumptions may be oversimplifying complex systems as merely complicated ones), and looks for the pat...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/25.html#a1221
Social Network Analysis: What to Map
Organization needs to look beyond the objective quantitative attributes of network links (the frequency of connections) and survey you and everyone else in the organization to [understand...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/08/11.html#a1240
Is it Time to Shift Strategy?
The best companies at weathering fundamental industry upheaval are those that spot and act on early warning signs
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http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4894&t=innovation
The World's Greatest Investors: Bill Miller
[Bill Miller's] explorations of behavioral psychology, evolutionary biology and other sciences have convinced him that markets evolve unendingly, that no fixed strategy or formula can suc...
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http://www.smartmoney.com/wgi/index.cfm?story=miller2005
Now, there's an idea!
[Sociology is] a discipline in search of a purpose; [Sociology could be] a humanistic social science that investigates social reality, discerns sociological principles, and then tells peo...
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http://socinsight.blogspot.com/2006/01/now-theres-idea-from-list-me-talking.html
Evolution of Ideas
Our observations of what seems to be working and what seems to be not working have finally changed the way we think about the world. I think we’re just getting used to the Web and the i...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/evolution-of-ideas
Triumph of the Individual
Whatever the topic -- war, economic growth, government regulation -- the only way to achieve genuine understanding of what's going on is to trace all actions back to the individuals who t...
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=032306D
Searching for the invisible man
Domestication of wildcat entrepreneurialism is good news for economists. Once research and innovation are reduced to a regular outlay and a steady stream of results, they become amenable ...
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http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5601890
Macroeconomics and Confirmatory Bias
it is impossible to know who, if anyone, is the possessor of [the true model of macroeconomics]. I believe that because of confirmatory bias, the engineers trust their models much more th...
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/05/macroeconomics.html
Précarité is the Price You Must Pay
Many people would be happier if they quit their job and either went into business for themselves, or found a new job that better matched their individual strengths—even if it is a job t...
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/05/16/precarite-is-the-price-you-must-pay
Collaborative Choreography & The Future Of Work
People and their interactivities around work and lifestyle are becoming more deeply intertwingled than ever before. We need to think and act more like multi-disciplined choreographers tha...
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http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2006/05/collaborative_c.html
Knowledge behaviours and information literacy
The value point is now the ability to create and maintain an accurate image of what's happening and what really exists. This isn't possible through a data base. It is possible through net...
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http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/002484.html
Change - Start a Ripple
For new ideas to really be valuable they need to have some level of transference. [...] Try something you are passionate about. If it works, and works consistently others will be drawn to...
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http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=95
Evolution = Revolution
Truly revolutionary ideas usually spread long before being reduced to method and process.
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http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2006/05/evolution_revol.html
Advice for NECC Goers
You can add enormous value to a good presentation by sharing your professional insights about the topic, through the blogosphere. [...] It’s a conversation, and in a time of rapid chang...
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http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/06/09/advice-for-necc-goers
Stories Teachers Tell One Another
Those teachers with the most clearly articulated stories of the process are those who have not let go of the past. They tell the old story with clarity and certainty while those learning ...
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http://hent.blogspot.com/2006/05/stories-teachers-tell-one-another.html
E-Knowledge & I-Knowledge
Informal learning is the pathway to I-knowledge. I-knowledge is what you decide upon after dumping odds and ends into your brain's blender. Demonstration of performance is the only viable...
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http://internettime.com/wordpress/?p=638
The relevance of the learning profession
Enabling learning is no longer about disseminating good content. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and then taking a back seat.
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http://www.jarche.com/?p=795
Neuroeconomics
Economics is still "about large-scale phenomena, like inflation and unemployment." It is not like we have exactly nailed those problems yet. But maybe [...] we need to redefine "microfoun...
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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/09/neuroeconomics.html
Mob mentality
Depending on who comments on any particular blog story, the “meaningful conversation” can drift into half-truths and thrive on the hopes and biases that exists in the minds of the par...
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http://atticmooses.com/blog/2006/06/22/85
Visual Models
Models exist both internally as mental models and externally as cognitive artifacts. Cognitive artifacts can take many forms. [...] While these different kinds of models vary greatly in t...
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http://www.idiagram.com/ideas/models.html
Techdirt: Is Twitter The Future Of News?
f enough of those people have ways of sharing their observations with the world [...] then news reporting may consist largely of tracking down these various first-hand reports and synthes...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080227/010921368.shtml
Attunement: Reading the Rhythms of the Child
There can be no communication if the instructive words are not heard, the tender touch is unfelt, and the admiring gaze is unseen.
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/attunement.htm