For you football plus Palm-owners out there, here’s the application you need. Except that it restarts my Treo on run. C’est la vie, no?
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Crowdsourcing is a nice new word for businesses like iStockphoto and Slivers of Time, where large numbers of people can make money in a “small” way. I think there will be a lot of similar businesses taking off based around hobbies (like photography). I’m sure people have already done them around video and around music, so what next?
See, it’s not dead, just becoming an adolescent. Which is why you’d rather it wasn’t around the house any more. Interesting review from Mather, but 95% central government focused. Even though take up is still low among citizens, local authorities have used web portals and technologies to start to sort out their internal communications issues. This has been a massive change, although pretty invisible to date.
Who knew that we had the lowest level of representation in the western world? That’s in terms of electors per councillor. But France at 1:116 seems astonishingly small. I guess 1:2600 is too large for my voice to be heard. But my ward has 10,000 people and three councillors, so maybe that feels more sensible?
Useful one-pager on how to customise Excel through startup worksheets/workbooks.
Lots of interesting themes from Maister:
Two items that echo Hutton’s thinking on how (non-)rational we are:
- Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Can we ever commit to a life-changing change programme? It takes a lot of (public) effort, as Weight Watchers recognises.
- Strategy means saying No. We have to have a core strategy that differentiates, and resist the move to other non-core activities.
And two others with lessons from life:
- How do you make relationships work? It’s not about compromise, it’s about taking turns. This is a corker, and very rarely stated.
- How to motivate younger teams – ensure that there is no underdelegation – and yes, it’s about leaders saying “I don’t have to do this any more; what should I be doing?”.
Two nice representations of the world that was and the world that will be:
- Key words in the State of the Nation Address. Horrific to see that the key one currently is “applause”!
- Timeline of trends and events with some interesting looking (if no doubt flawed) representations of economic, social, environmental factors.
I love Scott Adams’ mind. It comes over Aspergers-ish, which is probably why. Today’s blog is a classic: how should science try to eliminate religion? We know lots of the psychological tricks they use and that we could use, so why not try them?
You have to love an article called Japanese War Tubas. But I don’t think it is bad science. Surely its excellent science, just superseded?
At the end of this rant about the imprortance of numbers (I think he’s right, just it’s ranty), Mather has a quote from number 10:
The plural of anecdote is not data
I had heard it differently, and I’m not sure which I prefer:
Data is the antidote to the anecdote