I was looking for Doc’s D-I-Y IT article in Release 1.0, couldn’t find it in a shareable form and went for a ramble on the net as a result. Found Doc’s IT Conversations piece on the same subject. Read it. Again. And I saw the Stewart Brand quote again.
Form follows funding.
Fascinating.
So, when we buy opensource, what [...]
Form follows funding
March 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Opensource
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Four Pillars: Preparing the Foundations: On opensource
March 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars , Opensource
As part of Foundation and Empire, I have already signalled that I wanted to look at the impact of opensource on the IT construction industry (something Doc Searls covered in detail a few years ago in Release 1; I hope to link to it sometime tomorrow).
Humour me and come along for a slight detour.
In a [...]
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The Importance of Being Average
March 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Management
Or not, as the case may be.
One of my favourite pieces of apocrypha. (Ex-boss, if this is not true, blame Stu Berwick). And even if it is not true, it should be. So there. Ex-boss of mine on stage somewhere, part of a panel. Some other member of panel unwittingly says something like “With [...]
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Four Pillars: More on search
March 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Search
I was pretty upset at not being able to make PC Forum this year (conflicting priorities at work). Nevertheless I kept in touch with it by reading what I could in Release 1 and in Rafe Needleman. [Esther: I’ll still try and make Flight School on my own time and money, it was great last [...]
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