The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.
– Miikka Ryokas computer science student quoted in the NY Times.
Hat tip: John Winsor
The underground will never work
A nice example of terrible prediction.
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Pointless, again
Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins: Don’t get too attached to MySpace.
YouTube and the end of the world as we know it
I guess that “It will lead to chaos” counts as a high-energy varitation of “it will never work” which means this item becomes my second
It’ll never work
Inspired by a post by Earl Mardle I’ve added a new category to this blog, It’ll Never Work. I’ll use it to flag stories about
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Connections…
Viv emailed me this article from Businessweek: The importance of connecting with colleagues. If you can forgive the slightly office politics tone there’s some interesting nuggets here. For instance there
15 August 2010
Herd instincts
On a long flight to Austin TX I read most of Mark Earls’ book Herd. I liked it a lot, and am impressed by the breadth of reading and enquiry
6 March 2007
Pitfalls of explicit learning
Reflections on the dangers of making knowledge explicit – how it may actually undermine our knowledge and ability.
26 September 2004
A naive question
Obviously this is too simplistic. But I have this question for anyone who’s got some process to manage human beings in organisations. You know the sort of thing… a process
19 October 2007
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