Rambling thoughts on models
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
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Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
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links for 2006-03-07
A Networked World: Complexity Beyond Belief Earl Mardle shares a story “that quietly boggles my mind. It shows as well the staggering flexibility of the human brain and the mind
7 March 2006
Blowfly blog
Liam Mulhall co-founder of Australia’s Blowfly Beer (interviewed in this podcast last month), has just started blogging. In the podcast, he said mostly the big brewers had not seen him
6 July 2005
Agnostic internet
John Naughton reports on Dave Winer’s frustration at Twitter blocking one of his accounts. His offence? His tweets being mainly links. John makes a good argument: Dave is right to
24 November 2009
Getting into the grime with Wikipedia
I’m a fan of Wikipedia but I’ve been listening to one or two friends lately who aren’t. They’ve encouraged me to look at what goes on in the discussion pages
25 November 2007
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