Geek And Poke

Sometimes You Just Don't Wanna Know

See David Greenfield about calculating ROI of enterprise 2.0 systems.

The 2.0 Price Building Process

See Nicholas Carr about the casino economy.

A Real Community

See TechCrunch about networks around residential buildings.

The Final Questions

Lots of discussion about the Google Reader stats. See e.g. Crunchnotes and Techmeme.

The Podnoses - Episode 24 - The Old And The New Distribution Model

Nicholas Carr is - as always - sarcastic about the new model of content distribution. He writes about some thoughts from Ray Kurzweil.

Ray Kurzweil:

"The means of creativity have now been democratized. For example, anyone with an inexpensive high-definition video camera and a personal computer can create a high-quality, full-length motion picture."

Nicholas Carr:

"Yep. Just as the invention of the pencil made it possible for anyone to write a high-quality novel. And just as that power saw down in my cellar makes it possible for me to build a high-quality chest of drawers."

Nicholas, you're right. A pencil does not make a novelist. But there may be quite a few really good novelists out there. And now they have a good chance to get read.
In the new model you have just to be good to be heard.
In the old model you had to be lucky and/or to know the right person.

One Year In A IT Project - Day 6

Just a small reminescence to the Java Posse. See e.g. episode 145 with a small discussion about the right way to indent.

(Part 1 is here)

One Day In 1970

I've just read David Grober's post about 1970's machines.

My Blogging Principle

Just a humble principle

of my (quite short) blogging life.

One Year In A IT Project - Day 5

A post from Michael Krigsman ("10 signs your SOA project is on-track") inspired me.

Why You Do Need A SCA

Frankly, it's not really related to Joe McKendrick's post about SCA and Microsoft.
It just came into my mind while reading his post.