Archive for June 2005
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-29 Greenwood’s Map of London 1827: Interactive site based on the eponymous 1827 map Keywords: Maps The British Library Map Collections: Large Scale London Editions List: Index to maps in the British Library Keywords: Maps The knowledge sharing toolkit: The Knowledge Sharing Toolkit is the result of a [...]
I’ve changed the licencing for the material in this blog to pick up the recently-released UK version of the Creative Commons licence. Henceforth all original content created by myself and published on this website (including material previously published under different terms) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
I’ve been working through the books I added to my collection after the strategy course, especially Co-opetition and (just started) Thinking Strategically. When I was on the course, especially as we started to touch on the idea that certain strategies arise inherently from the structure of any situation (especially the [bliki]Value Net[/bliki]) it occurred to [...]
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-28 XML on the Web Has Failed: Mark Pilgrim article from July 2004 about the broken-ness caused by mismatches between XML character encodings, the way HTML servers serve XML files and over-liberal client-side libraries. Keywords: HTML, Web, XML
New on the bookshelf… Proactive Risk Management, Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development by Preston G. Smith and Guy M. Merritt
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-27 Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us: Jon Udell showing some initial experiments to extract emergent link recommendations from his del.icio.us feeds Keywords: Emergence/Long_Tail JavaScript Toolbox – Reusable Libraries And Objects: Collection of Javascript source files, examples, and concepts. Keywords: Javascript Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours: [...]
Inside Knowledge has a great article on the work my friend and colleague Euan Semple has been getting up to. He introduced me to blogging, so I’m really pleased to see him getting the sort of profile he deserves.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-22 Agile Risks / Agile Rewards: An agile approach to project Risk Management [PDF] Keywords: Project_Management/Risk
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-6-20 Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps: Restoring some important default browser default behaviour Keywords: Development/AJAX Learning Styles Online: Lots of background information on Learning Styles, together with an online learning styles questionnaire Keywords: learning Project: Working with Modules and Macros: Handy update on [...]
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-17 Understand Your Tribe: David Anderson extracts more gems from "Great Boss, Dead Boss" looking at the interactions of feelings of security and value in individuals and the groups they belong to. Keywords: Organisations
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-13 The Long Tail: Bring tha noize!: Signal-to-Noise in the long-tail. What most people think of as "their niche" is likely to be very popular. There’s a lot of stuff out there and filters are critical. Keywords: Economics, Long_Tail Comment on The Obvious: More is less: Keywords: Media [...]
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-10 Understanding $_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’], $PHP_SELF, $_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’] and $_SERVER[’SCRIPT_NAME’] in PHP and when to use what: self-explanatory? Keywords: Technology RSS for Microsoft KB: Updates to Microsoft Knowledge Base now available via RSS Keywords: Technology
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-09 AjaxPatterns: An in-progress collection of AJAX patterns Keywords: Development, Patterns, Web/Architecture, XML
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-07 Revoking a GPG Key Pair: How to create a revocation certificate, and how to use it. Keywords: Encryption
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-06-06 By the Numbers: The Wal-Mart Dilemma, File Sharing and Lousy Service: Keywords: Business/Strategy
I’ve just had the opportunity to spend a few days in Brugge (the view of the Bell Tower was from my hotel window). Although the centre of town was thronged with tourists it was only a few minutes’ walk to quieter districts where the architecture is just as impressive. Tourism is clearly the main industry [...]
In the strategy course we touched on (in varying levels of detail) the three main views of company strategy – since the course finished I’ve been adding reading on all three to my “incoming” bookshelf: The market-focused, competitive advantage approach of Michael Porter: The resource-based view of the firm, typified by Hamel and Prahalad: The [...]