March 20, 2006 – 12:03 pm
Wouldn’t life be easier if there were a yes-no black-white this-not-that answer to everything? Well, there’s not, not for questions and situations of any complexity. Is Ruby or other interpreted, dynamically-typed language appropriate for enterprise software development? Are functional specs useful? The answer to both those questions is not yes or no, it’s maybe. To […]
I’ve discovered a great blog by Leisa Reichelt, an information architect living in Sydney. It’s called disambiguity and has the clever tagline “pretty design pending.” I would like to declare that about myself, except with a slight change: “pretty hair pending.” The great thing about living in Maui has been that there’s never a […]
In response to Seth Godin’s proposal that bloggers blog too much, Umair Haque laments Americans fixation on usefulness. Then he takes aim at simplistic applications of economics:
It’s the naive culture of the market taken to an absurd extreme: the old economists’ notion of utility. By itself, utility is deeply insightful. It lets us understand decision-making […]
How does economics model entrepreneurialism? What implications does this have for Web 2.0 startups? And where might we expect to see the next wave of innovation in the creation and use of online services? Perhaps we ought to look at the nonprofit and NGO community for radical breakthroughs in the use of Web technology.
The current […]
March 13, 2006 – 11:39 am
In twenty short minutes I need to be at my son’s school to help paint the Hamlet set. He is half a Hamlet, splitting the part with another student. Happily, he gets the “to be or not to be” speech. I’m in charge of programs and helping out with the set. Good stuff. It’s so […]
One of my favorite new blogs comes from a mainstream media outfit, Business Week. It’s their Working Parents blog. They’ve gotten together five moms and two dads to write regularly about issues that impact parents trying to combine work and family. These issues affect every family with kids at home, because even when one parent […]
Dave Winer:
I’m so tired of people talking about how their mother wouldn’t understand something. I’ve been hearing this for 20 years, and it’s sexist and ageist, and wrong and unfair, and how about let’s get rid of this offensive idea. I’d never say that about my mother, who has a PhD, and is pretty smart. […]
