Monthly Archives: September 2007

Managing by Omission – Ricardo Semler @ MIT in 2005

September 28, 2007 – 2:23 pm

Nick Webb pointed me at this recording of a presentation given by Ricardo Semler at MIT in 2005, when he had joined for a semester as a visiting lecturer. Semler is the head of Semco SA, a Brazillian engineering company, and is most famous for his 2003 bestseller, “The Seven Day Weekend”. Semler got into [...]

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TiddlyChatter v0.1

September 27, 2007 – 5:56 pm

I recently posted about the TiddlyChatter idea I’m working on. I’ve posted a first version of TiddlyChatter: get it here. The instructions are contained in the file, but if you can’t get it to work, let me know. You’ll probably want two different TiddlyWiki’s to test with, so you can pretend there are two of [...]

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Instructables…

September 27, 2007 – 11:32 am

I have to give Cefn a nod for this… http://cefn.com/blog/filmcan_zoetrope.html

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CIO’s – “Career Is Over”?

September 25, 2007 – 4:15 pm

Jeremy‘s boss, JP Rangaswami, was mentioned last week on FT.com. The article talked about how CIO’s have changed the nature of their job from running the corporate IT machine, to being competent business strategists and communicators able to translate technology considerations into terms understandable by the top management, a job usually reserved for the CTO. [...]

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TiddlyChatter – decentralized collaboration

September 24, 2007 – 3:57 pm

Following on from my previous post about collaboration, I wanted to mention a project I started last week with some of the guys from the TiddlyWiki community who were visiting Osmosoft. [edit:] I realised with some shame today that I entirely forgot to credit Jeremy Ruston with the idea of TiddlyChatter, which he referred to [...]

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“Collaborate!” (getting people to use technology to work together)

September 24, 2007 – 3:09 pm

Working with other people is, for me, the best way of learning and getting things done. Unfortunately, I only learnt this after I left university, but better late than never… Over the last two years at BT, I’ve introduced users to a variety of technologies designed to help them work together more effectively, originally in [...]

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Using Script tags to do remote HTTP calls in Javascript

September 17, 2007 – 5:24 pm

I’ve been racking my brains all afternoon trying to find a workable solution to the problem of not being able to make remote HTTP calls using javascript. This is an issue for me because so much of my work takes place inside a TiddlyWiki which, when viewed locally (from a file:// url) is a perfect [...]

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TiddlyWiki on the XO-1 (OLPC laptop)

September 12, 2007 – 3:55 pm

Jeremy and I took some time out with Jim Gettys today to have a look at another couple of development builds of the XO-1 (aka the One Laptop Per Child laptop). We were pretty astonished to find that we could load a TiddlyWiki off a USB stick and into the XO’s browser and it worked [...]

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5 things I learnt at barcamp brighton

September 11, 2007 – 5:05 pm

I went to BarCamp Brighton this weekend. It’s a geek fest, and it was really good. Check out the photos on Flickr Backnetwork list of sessions and links to presentations Slideshare presentations I was sitting on the train on the way home and I couldn’t get the image of Saturday night’s dinner out of my [...]

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You linkin’ at me? Why Yahoo! is better than Google for finding inbound links

September 11, 2007 – 4:34 pm

I heard about this brilliant tip from Paul Silver at Barcamp Brighton this weekend, and not being able to find much about it on the web thought I’d write it up. This material comes from Paul’s presentation about ethical SEO. Google sucks at displaying the number of incoming links to your website when you search [...]

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