I score solidly in the corner of Idealism quadrant of the Environics “Fire and Ice” social values
assessment. (Found via Dave
Pollard.)
I wonder if this might correlate to The Political Compass, where I have been centering over time (2002-01-19, 2003-07-14, 2003-10-12, 2005-02-04) but in no danger of falling left or right. Multiple Nolan scale […]
Yearly Archives: 2003
Policital Tests
December 6, 2003 – 12:00 am
Technology truisms
December 6, 2003 – 12:00 am
And from the Wetness of Water Department: early adopters adopt technology earlier. Who pays for this stuff?
Connections
December 6, 2003 – 12:00 am
This isn’t the first time I’ve wondered about correlation of surveys. One of my crazy if-only-I-could-retire-now ideas has been a site like Emode or Quizilla, with all results data (anonymously) evaluated for reliability and correlation with each other and demographics.
Since I first dreamt that up, though, the blog phenomenon has surfaced, along with hundreds […]
The Gerwitz Memorial Grove
December 5, 2003 – 12:00 am
Two weeks ago I went on a Sierra
Club “hike” through Belfontaine cemetery. One can’t help but consider what kind of physical legacy when encountering the beautiful Judge monument and Busch memorial.
Tonight over dinner I decided that, although I intend my body to be recycled, I think I want some little plot of the planet […]
Moving the V in MVC closer to the user
December 4, 2003 – 12:00 am
I’ve been preaching that this is what the future will look like for years, ever since the first time I saw a simple Flash app that dynamically included server data. I’ve always meant to learn Flash, but it’s been so “movie” oriented that I never could get enthused. Finally, Flash gets application (I’m […]
Feature logjam
December 4, 2003 – 12:00 am
Recently, we’ve been encountering an antipattern I’ll call feature logjam (Scott Johnson calls it too many
chestnuts).
Coordination of multiple offshore development teams has taught us not to issue lists of tasks longer than absolutely necessary. Every one of them will tackle tasks by technical challenge or perception of project scope, overlooking the guidance of our […]
Social market crash
December 1, 2003 – 12:00 am
BlogShares is gone. I never paid it much attention, but thought it was a fascinating experiment. Let’s hope Seyed comes back with a FOAF-enabled social
network, or something else to continue pushing social software forward.
Defining meaning
December 1, 2003 – 12:00 am
After my pondering on preserving context when describing document formats with semantic metadata, Paul Brown pointed me to the Charteris
Integration Toolkit. Their marketing literature defines the costs of data integration in 8 points, which I would simplify into two categories: point-to-point scaling problems, including n(n-1) complexity, and semantic context. The former is handily […]
Coming of age
November 30, 2003 – 12:00 am
Jeffrey Zeldman ponders the appeal of travel as a
reenactment of
childhood.
[Part of an unfinished memoir about Istanbul. Found via Ryan.]
Memetic dreams
November 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
I presently have 178 feeds in NetNewsWire. About 80 of those are in a disorganized soup that I wade through only as time permits. That still leaves almost a hundred that have been deemed worthwhile and I aggregate for regular reading in subject groups that have evolved over time (Friends, St. Louis, Geek, […]