May
25
Wikis in the Workplace
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The most distinctive characteristic of a wiki is that anyone in the group can edit, modify or even delete material on the pages. Such a free-form collaborative process can be messy and chaotic, and it requires a commitment to the group that may not sit well with some egos. But over time, wiki advocates say, [...]
May
23
Parliamentary Debate
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Lord Sainsbury of Turville: My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord has asked me a Question about corned beef cans. I have been answering questions about them all my life and I regard them as one of my real areas of expertise.
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes: My Lords, does the Minister agree, as the [...]
May
18
Word of the day: lacuna
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In the UK, if a speed camera records a speeding car, the owner of the car will be sent a formal request, under s172 of the Road Traffic Act, asking for details of who was driving the car at that time. In the usual case of the owner being the driver, and admitting to driving [...]
May
10
Six Monkeys Writing Shakespeare
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Students from the University of Plymouth managed to get a grant of £2000 from the Arts Council to test the hypothesis that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite amount of time could reproduce the works of Shakespeare.
However, they seemed to lack the resources to attain an infinite supply of monkeys, and with a [...]
May
9
An interesting take on the age old debate, found over on the c2 wiki, in response to the suggestion that teaching computer science should pay much more attention to its applications in the real world:
I disagree. That’s SoftwareEngineering. CompSci should be about the theory and the limits of what’s possible at least as much as [...]
May
5
Customer Centric or Customers Centric?
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At the Emerging Technology Conference I heard Amazon staff say several times that Amazon is (or is striving to be) the most customer centric company on Earth. Every time I hear this it irks me more and more because I know that my dealings with Amazon have generally been pretty poor.
I don’t doubt Amazon’s [...]
May
4
Fear Factor
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LA Magazine has a very interesting article on Jack T Chick, now the most published living author, with 500 million copies of his 142 books in print. It’s been a while since I paid much attention to what he’s been doing, but I was surprised to hear that he’s been working for 10 years on [...]