Category: philosophy
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Treasure Island
ok, so over on Slashdot there is this story about someone dropping $26K and change for a “Treasure Island” in some MMORPG. Ok, so is this cool? I’m not sure, but here is an idea that if I were the developer of one of these MMORPGs: sell one-of-a-kind items on both e-bay and in-game, so…
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boundaries & categories
Let’s say there are two basic categories of IT in the world – Enterprise IT (EIT) and Consumer IT (CIT). Let’s also say that the size of each of these categories is so large in relation to the rest of the possibilities that they fall into the boundary between EIT and CIT – inside the…
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An idea for distributed project management
Premise: The tools are already out there. The tools for project management are, in large part, already developed and deployed. I say this for two reasons – 1) project management is more art than science and, as such, there is a broad and fuzzy domain in which “Project Management” happens; 2) the suites and monolithic…
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the right tools for the job…
There is nothing worse than trying to hammer nails with the butt end of a screwdriver or jam the corner of the standard screwdriver bit into the Phillips screw slot. Having the right tool makes working on something so much more enjoyable. Technology is all about using tools, but it’s also about creating the tools…
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more virtual worlds
I’ve never gotten into the MMORPG thing, mostly because I haven’t got the time or money to indulge my want. But one thing has always been askew in the view I have of these games. That thing is that they are too contrived. Let’s face it, paper and pencil RPGs were all about a thin…
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intertwinuglarity….
i wish i had written this – I also wish that there was a year on the date… Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged — people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled. Ted Nelson In the following, I outline a potential project to make…
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Information availability
In Spokane it seems that finding information about what is going on in the business community, specifically in the entrepreneurial community. There are plenty of things happening around town, and a lot of frenetic energy being generated by the various agencies whose job it is to ratchet up the hype and enthusiasm about doing business…
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Kata-whata?
What does this word mean, what does it have to do with technology, and why am I using it? All good questions. First of all, it’s not a word, technically. You won’t find it in a dictionary or lexicon, because it is a neologism in Ancient Greek which takes chora, the term used in the…
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what Google could do…
okay… so Google has all this stuff that they have bought up – Orkut, Blogger, Babelfish, the desktop apps Keyhole and Picasa, the desktop search engine, gmail… lots of stuff. (David Allen’s stuff definition: “anything that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action…
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i hate air travel
I really hate getting around by air. I have a hard time finding something that seems more universally unenjoyable yet maintains such a unyielding grip on the average person. There has to be a better way. There has to be a way to be comfortable in airports, to be comfortable on airplanes, not feel dehumanized…