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Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google’s own issues with creating platforms on Google+. Apparently, he only wanted to share it internally with everybody at Google, but mistaken shared it publicly. For the most part, Yegge’s post focusses on the horrors of working at Amazon, a company that is notorious for its political infighting. The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge’s blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google’s inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run. Google Engineer: [ continue reading Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms” ] 15 October 2011  |  | category: empires flux, facebook, learning, social media tools, twitter, world of work  | comments are closed  The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo. 16 March 2011 | | category: advice, can't make it up!, film, photography, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the state we're in, world of work, writing | comments are closed All of which brings me back to Egypt as the canary in a very large coal mine. It’s hard to overstate just how unexpected a transformation is occurring in Egypt. Death, taxes, and Hosni Mubarak — they were the three great certainties in modern Egyptian life. But just underneath the surface, the tectonic pressure of dumb growth was steadily mounting. Bogus prosperity’s like magma, filling the volcanic chamber of a society: you can bottle it up for only so long before it erupts, and spectacularly. Today, the world’s gaze is fixed on the pyroclastic flow: never-ending demonstrations, protests, people [ continue reading Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You ] 3 February 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, empires flux, prognosticators, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed With Tumblr recently experiencing a 24-hour offline stint and a reported single 9 of service reliability, there are plenty of jokes about the microblogging service’s infamous downtime (most I’ve heard have at least a tenuous WikiLeaks connection). Here’s the most Tumblr elaborate satire piece yet: Go to http://wellbebackshortly.com/ and hit refresh. Hit refresh again, and again. Created by Adam Hemphill, the site is a riff on the Tumblr “We’ll Be Back Shortly” page and generates over a hundred hypothetical excuses as to why Tumblr is down so Tumblr doesn’t have to. (Tumblr is currently UP, at the moment.) [ continue reading “Squirrels” And 100 Other Reasons Why Tumblr Is Down ] “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. 14 October 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, film, photography, rail, transport, travel, world of work | comments are closed “Mrs Thatcher is 85 today but ironically she’s been knocked off the news by a Government that looks after their miners! « LOL – RT @iancawsey” . This seems to be one of the commonest tweeted perspectives this morning. Great news that they will get the lads out of their mine but what a media scrum! Don’t the billionaire politicians line-up to get in the pictures with people they were barely aware of before? Let’s see how the miners cope with fame of this magnitude, it will not be easy to adjust. It’s hard for me to believe that Chile [ continue reading at least she won’t know anything about it ] 13 October 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed One of the best bits of telly and most uplifting and inspiring accounts I have ever seen. WATCH IT ON iPLAYER “It was the best part of my life,” said one silver-haired lady in ringing tones, while another described it as “poetry” and a third as “the aeroplane and you were one”. What these doughty octogenarians were describing in this gem of a film was flying Spitfires during the Second World War. The three women – and a few more more tracked down by director Harvey Lilley – are among the last-remaining women who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary [ continue reading Spitfire Women, BBC Four – if You watch anything on telly this week – let it be this ] 21 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, one world, women, world of work | comments are closed Now, twenty three years later, I have awakened from what I consider a long slow nightmare. Not so much different from the dreams in which we realize we went to class in our underwear. Those years were spent attempting (sometimes desperately) to succeed in our complex little capitalistic culture. I love capitalism and the freedom we have to choose our careers. We are blessed to be able to start a business from scratch if that is what we desire. You can be a bus driver, a doctor, or the owner of a tattoo parlor. Go for it! (CLICK [ continue reading Does Your Passion Show Through? ] Google has reached a pivotal moment in its history. What can it do to expand beyond its incredible core business, which is now reaching a more mature phase? For insight on how it can develop, let’s look to Pixar. Pixar is as close to a constant learning organization as there is, with a proven ability to reinvent and a genuine cultural humility. Google’s founders could learn from Pixar’s founder and president Ed Catmull’s prolonged and [ continue reading What Google Could Learn From Pixar ] The discarded slips recorded in this book were found in and around three Sheffield jobcentres, between August 2009 and March 2010. Many of the slips were discovered well away from the actual jobcentres, on various streets, down back alleys, in phone boxes and stuffed in salt bins. They have been collected and documented in their original state. *There are currently more people unemployed in the Uk than at any time since 1994. If you don’t know what these slips are. or you’ve never been in a jobcentre, you’d better start learning. It won’t be long now. Dead Ends [ continue reading Dead Ends – further information ] I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. [ continue reading Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody ] 19 May 2010 | | category: prognosticators, the state we're in, time, world of work, writing | one comment - (comments are closed) Being a busy father of three, and running a small business it’s pretty difficult to keep on top of everything going on. One of the things you need to rely on is trust. And businesses you should trust the most are ones that you actually have a stake in – like the Nationwide Building Society. As Nationwide is a mutual business, it’s aim is to best serve it’s members – the savers and borrowers who are more than customers – they are it’s stakeholders. So it should be more trustworthy than a bank. So, why is it having been a [ continue reading Don’t trust Nationwide Building Society. ] WHAT´S FIAT MIO? THE FIRST CAR MADE BASED ON CREATIVE COMMONS In order to understand MIO, we rescued the thinking of a great Italian, like Fiat, namely Michelangelo. The sculpture master believed that by just simply lapidating and chipping away the rough material one would find a great work of art in any stone block. Sobre o Projeto « Fiat invites you to create a car. A car to call your own. ] And my nomination/mention for an inspirational tech-maven for Ada Lovelace day 2010 #ALD10 is … my Mum, Dorothy McNeill. Mum went, on her own, from Anfield, Liverpool to Bahrain in the 1950′s as an IBM ‘stenog’ (not that far from Babbage). Pretty flippin’ amazin’ as far as I am concerned and an inspiration to me since 1958. Especially fortuitous for this posting as that is where she met my Dad. That’s all I want to say about that. Loopt continues to ramp up its focus on location-based deals. The pioneer of the mobile social network is launching a new app called LooptCard, which lets mobile consumers tap into offers, coupons and discounts by checking-in to spots. Today, Loopt is partnering with deals site Mobile Spinach to offer users deals and coupons for local merchants via the Loopt App. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Loopt Partners With Mobile Spinach To Offer Location-Based Deals: .) [ continue reading Loopt Partners With Mobile Spinach To Offer Location-Based Deals ] Police are appealing for information or witnesses to come forward after an ambulance Cycle Response Unit was stolen in Sheffield City Centre. The incident occurred at about 1pm on Thursday 18 February when the bike was taken from the secure bike park inside Sheffield Town Hall on Pinstone Street. Life-Saving Cycle Response Unit Stolen in Sheffield – Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. I have often said I don’t ‘get’ Facebook. I think if I have something to say or share I post it to a blog. If one links your blog to your Facebook or Twitter people get snitty about overposting or ask why one finds some things interesting and request read-throughs; but they still send endless Facebook.app quizzes or pics of their forearm and gurning face beside an inebriated friend’s face. I do not know why people give their work and possessions to Facebook with no understanding of the ownership, copyright or privacy issues that this may bring to them and [ continue reading The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What? ] All of this rings true to me. Unfortunately it was at this point – about five minutes ago – that I realised the time. I’ve spent so long catching up with everything I missed from the past week or so that six hours have passed. It’s dawn in San Francisco, a matter of minutes before my deadline, and I still haven’t written a word, let alone 1300. That’s the other annoying thing about skipping a week: it takes you another week just to catch up. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch NSFW: Playing catch-up… Or ceci n’est pas une [ continue reading NSFW: Playing catch-up… Or ceci n’est pas une column ] 22 February 2010 | | category: advice, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work, writing | comments are closed Handed my shoes in at Gwythers for resoling, this could be Mr Gwyther who is doing my soles. This fellah is in Eccy Road!!! What’s that about? Soles from solare from cobblers, Verona, Italy. NALOPKT! There is absolutely no reason for an iPhone/iPod to trust root CAs for over-the-air mobileconfig downloads. Apple needs to define who should be able to download mobileconfig files onto a device, be it an end-user or a company, and devise a correct way to share keys between the device and its associated provisioning server. January « 2010 « Cryptopath. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It’s definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. What was more interesting to me about the article, and perhaps to you, is the idea that this technology will help reshape work in new positive ways. Here’s the claim: Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven [ continue reading JUST IN TIME WORK ] 4 February 2010 | | category: one world, prognosticators, the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed The world is going free! everyone need shovels and shovels need replacing but you can only hand over your gold once. In October Newsday (a Long Island daily paper that was sold for $650 million) began charging for online access. The price is $5 per week. In three months 35 people have subscribed. The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000. In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well. After Three Months, Only [ continue reading After 3 months, Newsday’s web site gets 35 subscribers ] 28 January 2010 | | category: advice, facebook, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Nerds, one world, prognosticators, the state we're in, world of work, writing | comments are closed |  
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