Comments on: On control: Another very provisional post http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Design for Loss of Control is an Evolutionary Question | Exile Leadership http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-795234 Design for Loss of Control is an Evolutionary Question | Exile Leadership Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:38:15 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-795234 [...] joining a conversation JP Rangaswami started on his blog Confused of Calcutta in 2006. Last August, Tim Leberecht broadened the discussion to include the design world, and pointed to a [...] [...] joining a conversation JP Rangaswami started on his blog Confused of Calcutta in 2006. Last August, Tim Leberecht broadened the discussion to include the design world, and pointed to a [...]

]]> By: Design for Loss of Control is an Evolutionary Question | Exile http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-675217 Design for Loss of Control is an Evolutionary Question | Exile Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:02:51 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-675217 [...] joining a conversation JP Rangaswami started on his blog Confused of Calcutta in 2006. Last August, Tim Leberecht broadened the discussion to include the design world, and pointed to a [...] [...] joining a conversation JP Rangaswami started on his blog Confused of Calcutta in 2006. Last August, Tim Leberecht broadened the discussion to include the design world, and pointed to a [...]

]]> By: Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Counting what counts: Musing about Wikipedia and Drosophila http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6648 Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Counting what counts: Musing about Wikipedia and Drosophila Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:21:28 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-6648 [...] I feel at ease. For once I am not confused. At least I am less confused than I was earlier. You remember the sequence of posts I wrote about opensource and gatekeepers? [Those new to the conversation can find them here, here, here, here and here, in chronological order. Alternatively you can enter “gatekeeper” into the search box in the sidebar and get the same results. But it’s not important.] [...] [...] I feel at ease. For once I am not confused. At least I am less confused than I was earlier. You remember the sequence of posts I wrote about opensource and gatekeepers? [Those new to the conversation can find them here, here, here, here and here, in chronological order. Alternatively you can enter “gatekeeper” into the search box in the sidebar and get the same results. But it’s not important.] [...]

]]> By: Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Truth and fiction and strangeness http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5423 Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Truth and fiction and strangeness Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:05:52 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5423 [...] In a recent post titled On Control, I wrote about what happened to LIFE Magazine in 1972; in it I referred to a number of quotes from something called Dirck Halstead’s Platypus Papers. [...] [...] In a recent post titled On Control, I wrote about what happened to LIFE Magazine in 1972; in it I referred to a number of quotes from something called Dirck Halstead’s Platypus Papers. [...]

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5412 JP Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:02:06 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5412 I've never been able to forget it. That picture said more than a thousand words to me in the thirty years since I first saw it, even though I didn't have it in front of me. Now I have the impetus and ability to get a large print for the library. I’ve never been able to forget it. That picture said more than a thousand words to me in the thirty years since I first saw it, even though I didn’t have it in front of me. Now I have the impetus and ability to get a large print for the library.

]]> By: Sean http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5410 Sean Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:51:19 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5410 What an amazing photograph. What an amazing photograph.

]]> By: Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » More on Control and Complexity and Big http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5302 Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » More on Control and Complexity and Big Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:13:55 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5302 [...] Dennis Howlett commented on a recent post of mine, On Control, where I was musing over Big’s relationship to Control Failure, and arguing that we needed a Better But Not That Big approach. One of the things Dennis said was [...] [...] Dennis Howlett commented on a recent post of mine, On Control, where I was musing over Big’s relationship to Control Failure, and arguing that we needed a Better But Not That Big approach. One of the things Dennis said was [...]

]]> By: Hugh MacLeod http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5286 Hugh MacLeod Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:04:27 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5286 I like the old saw, "A company is either growing or it's dying". I suspect the latter is what happened to LIFE. Or what will happen to Microsoft. Or SAP ;-) I like the old saw, “A company is either growing or it’s dying”.

I suspect the latter is what happened to LIFE. Or what will happen to Microsoft. Or SAP ;-)

]]> By: Kristine http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5284 Kristine Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:20:16 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5284 Calling Doc Searls a gatekeeper is just 'old world thinking', or trying to use an outdated map of the world to describe the world we're living in now. It's the same sort of thinking that goes into describing the blogosphere as some sort of right wing conspiracy, email groups as 'virtual freemasonry', and, to take a more mundane example, makes the Norwegian government focus on helping big industrial scale farming while the smartest farmers have all shifted to smaller, more specialised 'niche' products. It's the worldmap of the Cold War and the industrial society applied to the open, knowledge-based society. Calling Doc Searls a gatekeeper is just ‘old world thinking’, or trying to use an outdated map of the world to describe the world we’re living in now. It’s the same sort of thinking that goes into describing the blogosphere as some sort of right wing conspiracy, email groups as ‘virtual freemasonry’, and, to take a more mundane example, makes the Norwegian government focus on helping big industrial scale farming while the smartest farmers have all shifted to smaller, more specialised ‘niche’ products. It’s the worldmap of the
Cold War and the industrial society applied to the open, knowledge-based society.

]]> By: Amrit http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5267 Amrit Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:46:51 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/20/on-control-another-very-provisional-post/#comment-5267 Hi JP. It's just recently I've started visiting your blog and this post will make me come back for more :-). We should learn from nature where, although things seem bigger, at all micro-levels they work independently assuring one thing: they deliver what they are meant to deliver. If I'm not confusing the expression, the word that comes to my mind is, microcosm. In programming terms, you can take an example from object oriented programming where smaller modules are created to manage the bigger modules. The bigger companies can too formulate smaller sections and increase efficiency, as you've rightly said with regards to the airports. Too much obsession with "big" leads to mismanagement, loss of grassroots level control and chaos. Hi JP.

It’s just recently I’ve started visiting your blog and this post will make me come back for more :-).

We should learn from nature where, although things seem bigger, at all micro-levels they work independently assuring one thing: they deliver what they are meant to deliver. If I’m not confusing the expression, the word that comes to my mind is, microcosm. In programming terms, you can take an example from object oriented programming where smaller modules are created to manage the bigger modules.

The bigger companies can too formulate smaller sections and increase efficiency, as you’ve rightly said with regards to the airports. Too much obsession with “big” leads to mismanagement, loss of grassroots level control and chaos.

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