confused of calcutta

At a recent conference in Las Vegas, Cisco President John Chambers is quoted as saying “I’m proud to be a plumber“. I wasn’t there to hear what he said, and I haven’t seen any complete transcripts, so I will restrict my comments.
Chambers is also quoted as saying that 40-50% per cent of future productivity gains [...]

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Ron Silliman recently linked to me and stated in his blog: One technology blogroll I like a lot – because it focuses to a surprising degree on the social implications of technology – belongs to J.P. Rangaswami, whose blog is Confused in Calcutta.
Ron, I appreciate the feedback. But it made me think. Am I unusual [...]

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I’ve been listening to a panel debating More Than Just a Game at Supernova this afternoon. And on the panel we had some very interesting people, including Philip Rosedale (Linden Labs), Amy Jo Kim (Shufflebrain), Michael Zyda (USC Gamepipe Lab), moderated by Dan Hunter of The Wharton School.
And I thought to myself, is it time [...]

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We’re in for a real shock as Generation M waltz into the workplace.
[I have no real idea where the kernel for this particular snowball comes from, I read voraciously and converse with many people. To someone out there, thanks.]
I think we’ve built a strange ritual in the workplace. We start using something new and unfamiliar, [...]

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This post was triggered by a quotation from Bob Sutton’s Weird Ideas That Work, brought to my notice by Chief Innovation Officer, who also informs us that Professor Sutton is now blogging. Great. And thanks to Chief Innovation Officer.
Here’s the quote:

Organising for routine work: Drive out variance
Organising for innovative work: Enhance variance

This contention and conflict, [...]

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I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the first law of usability is “Words matter”.
The kernel for this post was a piece in Ed Cone’s Know It All blog, pointing me at an interview with Jakob Nielsen in the Wall Street Journal today.
Now Nielsen is someone I like and trust, but the tone of the [...]

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The kernel for this snowball was Metric 2.0’s question in a recent comment on one of my posts.
Does IT have strategic value? I shall resist the temptation to quote Paul Strassmann or Nicholas Carr, or even to rebut them.
My thoughts on this are simple:

First, you can no longer separate information and communication from the enabling [...]

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From Alexa’s Movers and Shakers:
8. 1,100% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 6,726 (was 82,338)

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9. 260% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 3,089 (was 13,507)

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And if you’re bored, go visit John Sadowski’s site, it was an unusual entry in the top 10 so [...]

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It’s not that often that I am by myself in a strange city away from the usual attractions and distractions of life, and one of the things that lets me do is catch up on my reading. [Yes, I know I read a lot and don't sleep much, but I mean a different type of [...]

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I thought it was worth picking up on the comments made by Kris Tuttle and by James Dellow on my previous post. We’re all driving towards the same place.
First, on the reason why enterprises choose to reduce proliferation of architectures and their components, why formal standards made sense. I believe this was for three reasons:
One, [...]

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