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Musing about the value of social software

October 6th, 2006 · 17 Comments · Four pillars

Following a recent post I’d written on Agile, David Tebbutt (who’s on my blogroll and an occasional commenter) raised the following point:
One thing bothers me and that is that huge numbers of people, evangelists if you like, have enthusiasms for things like ’social computing.’ Their enthusiasm isn’t for particular products, more for improving the communication [...]

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Hallam Foe: Part 2

October 6th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

[This is for David and Hugh]

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Hallam Foe

October 6th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Four pillars

I’ve just come back from an intriguing experiment, having watched an unfinished version of David Mackenzie’s Hallam Foe, in the company of a small and relatively random bunch of bloggers. Everybody knew someone else there, and we all knew Hugh, who, in all probability, pretty much constructed the experiment and convinced David to do it. [...]

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