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The Last Enclosures | Easily Distracted
"I think it’s fairly simple. You know the classic “First they came for the X, then they came for the Y, and I did nothing, and then they came for me?” schtick? This is one of those stories. In fact, it’s the end of one of those stories. They already came for the doctors and the psychiatrists. They already came for the lawyers. They already came for the accountants and auditors. They already came for all the professions. Professors are the last to be broken on the wheel, the last to be put at their station in the new assembly lines of the 21st Century Service Economy."
academic-culture  cultural-assumptions  disintermediation-in-action  universities  social-norms  corporatism 
8 weeks ago by Vaguery
Embedding Collaboration from the Start - Jimmy Guterman - Our Editors - Harvard Business Review
"At Nokia, informal mentoring begins as soon as someone steps into a new job. Typically, within a few days, the employee's manager will sit down and list all the people in the organization, no matter in what location, it would be useful for the employee to meet. This is a deeply ingrained cultural norm, which probably originated when Nokia was a smaller and simpler organization. The manager sits with the newcomer, just as her manager sat with her when she joined, and reviews what topics the newcomer should discuss with each person on the list and why establishing a relationship with him or her is important. It is then standard for the newcomer to actively set up meetings with the people on the list, even when it means traveling to other locations. The gift of time — in the form of hours spent on coaching and building networks — is seen as crucial to the collaborative culture at Nokia."
collaboration  management  Workantile-ideas  social-norms  social-networks  organizational-design 
may 2011 by Vaguery
apenwarr - Business is Programming
"Whether because they're Canadian or because they're engineers, or both, they are unusual among aid organizations because they focus on understanding what didn't work. For the last three years, they've published Failure Reports detailing their specific failures. The reports make an interesting read, not just for aid organizations, but for anyone trying to manage engineering teams."
learning-by-doing  publishing  engineering-design  social-norms  explain-your-mistakes 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Stumbling and Mumbling: Against social mobility
"The rhetoric of social mobility helps to legitimize  class hierarchies, by maintaining the pretence that  management is a technical skills. In fact, bosses' power derives from other sources.And what's worst of all is that such hierarchies might not be needed anyway. In many firms, "management" is either a redundant function - because good companies run themselves - or it's worse than useless."
via:tsuomela  social-norms  social-mobility  classism  american-dreaminess  cultural-assumptions 
december 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.4271] A Community Membership Life Cycle Model
"…In this work, we give a short overview of traditional community roles. We adapt those models and apply them to virtual online communities. We suggest a community membership life cycle model describing roles a user can take during his membership in a community. Our model is systematic and generic; it can be adapted to concrete communities in the web. The knowledge of a community's life cycle allows influencing the group structure: Stage transitions can be supported or harmed, e.g. to strengthen the binding of a user to a site and keep communities alive."
social-engineering  social-norms  social-dynamics  online  web-culture  online-communities  sociology 
june 2010 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias : Be Self-Styled
'While “self-styled” seems mostly a put-down, it is a notably weak one. The user of this phrase notes that someone claims something, but lacks an official credential, or strong consensus, supporting this claim. But we the reader can also note that this speaker offers no stronger criticism, and is not willing to directly contradict the offending claim. After all, instead of calling someone a “self-styled visionary,” you might say “he calls himself a visionary, but he’s not; he hasn’t has a vision in years.”'
self-definition  generalism  social-norms  criticism  personal-brand  innovation  dilettantism  call-me-a-self-styled-stylist 
june 2010 by Vaguery
When HTTP Goes Bad
"This memo considers three radical ideas applying to the Web, not necessarily as serious proposals (although given support they could be turned into such) but as thought experiments or fantasies meant to sharpen the discussion of the "meaning" of URIs and other current issues of web architecture. The first fantasy is the idea that a URI's meaning is in how it is used, not what it "identifies". The second is the prospect of second sourcing for URI behavior. The third is the idea of encyclopedia-style documentation for URIs."
semantic-web  commons  social-norms  resources  best-practices  property  thought-experiments  via:arthegall 
june 2010 by Vaguery
Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum @ Dave’s Educational Blog
"In the rhizomatic model of learning, curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process. This community acts as the curriculum, spontaneously shaping, constructing, and reconstructing itself and the subject of its learning in the same way that the rhizome responds to changing environmental conditions…"
education  pedagogy  generalism  agility  academic-culture  social-norms  network-culture 
may 2010 by Vaguery
PLoS ONE: Do Ravens Show Consolation? Responses to Distressed Others
"Our findings suggest that in ravens, bystanders may console victims with whom they share a valuable relationship, thus alleviating the victims' post-conflict distress. Conversely victims may affiliate with bystanders after a conflict in order to reduce the likelihood of renewed aggression. These results stress the importance of relationship quality in determining the occurrence and function of post-conflict interactions, and show that ravens may be sensitive to the emotions of others."
xenopsychology  ethology  social-norms  cultural-assumptions  cultural-dynamics 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Why You Should Lie in Your Online Dating Profile » Sociological Images
'It turns out that people’s stated preferences have a weak relationship to who they actually like. Stated preferences, one study found, “seemed to vanish when it came time to choose a partner in physical space.”'
sociology  social-norms  survey-data  marketing  models-and-modes  relevance-theory  pragmatics 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Evolution and Economics as Different Paradigms XI: Market Fundamentalism : Evolution for Everyone
"At the end of the day, the most pressing problems of modern life require an accurate description of the real world so that the inevitable tradeoffs can be managed for the common good. Fundamentalism interferes with this enterprise and needs to be recognized for what it is. Fortunately, we can go beyond epithets and prove that a given belief system counts as fundamentalist by calling attention to the absence of tradeoffs. Market fundamentalism can be as plain as the nose on your face when you know what to look for."
evolution  cultural-norms  fundamentalism  philosophy  social-norms  policy  cultural-assumptions  pragmatism 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Why Won’t Conservatives Call Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime? | Sexuality & Gender | ReligionDispatches
"And that, I think, is why some Oklahoma legislators have voted to insulate homophobic violence from the “hate crime” label. At least on a subconscious level, I suspect they see a connection between homophobic violence and the beliefs to which they cleave. To call gay-bashing a hate crime would mean they couldn’t merely condemn the gay bashers. They’d also have to condemn themselves, their churches, and the broader cultural forces with which they identify.
My challenge to conservative legislators is this: If you really think your belief system is innocent, then you have no need to protect it in this way. And if you suspect that your belief system is not innocent, then it shouldn’t be protected. Either way, you ought to call a hate crime what it is."
homophobia  equal-rights  civil-rights  social-norms  cultural-assumptions  conservatism  law  regionalism 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Sprawl and preferences « The Reality-Based Community
"People who say they like living in the suburbs are not expecting to pay a lot of what it really costs to do it. Furthermore, a lot of them are having second thoughts: the fastest-growing demographic in Manhattan is now children: people who can afford to live anywhere they want are increasingly deciding that a real city is the best place to raise a family.…"
cull-the-cars  suburbs  city-planning  social-norms  public-policy  habits  why-do-economists-never-hear-Dewey-on-habit? 
march 2010 by Vaguery
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation — HBS Working Knowledge
"We investigate if the actions by individuals in creating effective new innovations are aligned with the reuse of those innovations by others in a private-collective software development context. …"
open-source  collaboration  whuffie-culture  software-development  social-norms  business-culture 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Full-content RSS feeds harm page views, but not viewership - Boing Boing
"Merlin Mann calls for websites to offer free, full-text RSS feeds. Jason Snell agrees, but wonders if offering them harms web traffic. As Boing Boing's had a full-content feed since the dawn of time, we can't really tell, but John Gruber switched only recently. He says that in his experience, a dip in traffic did result--but that in the long run, his RSS feed became the primary source of income for Daring Fireball:…"
RSS  web-analytics  monetizing  readership  attention  social-norms 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice | Science & Environment | ReligionDispatches
"Hospital-based chaplains and pastoral counselors come up against a fairly brutal form of scientism all the time. In many health care institutions, these people are barely tolerated. They are pointedly not invited to participate in rounds or in patient evaluation sessions. I recall how, as a first-year seminary student doing what is called “supervised ministry” at a New Haven mental health hospital, I was somewhat shocked to see how patients’ behavior was interpreted purely in terms of reactions to their medications, whereas I could see plainly that many of these same patients were responding to the presence or absence of human connection—visits and phone calls from loved ones either made or not made, friendships with other patients either formed or broken."
healthcare  social-norms  cultural-assumptions  medical-culture  social-psychology  conversation  most-doctors-fail 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Rich People Things: David Brooks and the Myth of the New Fair Society | The Awl
"One can only gesture broadly at the cavernous dioramas of fallacy and illogic on display here, but a good place to begin is with this column’s woeful opening assertion that the C. Wright Mills classic The Power Elite—published in 1956, the putative heyday of balmy aristocratic management of the investment economy—somehow chronicled the ongoing social dominance of WASP primogeniture. Mills did argue that old family fortunes continued to loom disproportionately over the country’s long-term wealth profile—but more important, he maintained that the defining structural features of the power elite arose from its mastery of the technocratic military state created in the first flush of the Cold War."
David-Brooks  review  culture-war  cultural-assumptions  social-norms  sociology  American-cultural-assumptions  economics  clubbiness  elitism 
february 2010 by Vaguery
How Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes You A Better Author - Jay Lake - io9
"If you spent hundreds of hours playing Dungeons & Dragons in your youth, it turns out that time wasn't wasted. Three successful authors tell Suvudu that D&D gave them the experience points to write decent novels and stories."
Dungeons-and-Dragons  social-norms  social-skills  cognitive-psychology  socialization  pedagogy  acculturation  learning-by-doing 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Conversation Hackers
"Two important men are having a careful conversation on military training. What do you call the guy who, having no particular competence or interest in the matter at hand, jumps in the conversation, systematically contradicts everyone with contrived arguments, ridicules the two competent discussants, orients the conversation on a completely different topic, then leaves the audience baffled and walks away, laughing? That Troll is Socrates in Plato's Laches. True, Plato's Socrates seldom hops in uninvited, and most of his interlocutors do not consider him noxious. Indeed one wonders why the whole city grew so irritated that they voted to condemn him to death. But Plato, like all philosophers and sophists, had a stake in defending his colleagues. In other views of Socrates (like Aristophanes' caricature), he is unmistakably trollish. "
trolls  conversation  community  social-norms  social-engineering  social-psychology  life-online  hacking  cognitive-dissonance 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Three-Toed Sloth
"[W]hy didn't prints displace paintings the same way that printed books displaced manuscript codices? Why didn't it become expected that visual artists, like writers, would primarily produce works for reproduction?"
art  media  disintermediation  history  publishing  painting  prints  intellectual-property  craftsmanship  social-norms  sociology  self-definition 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Reshaping Relationships through Passion
"The Big Shift suggests we are moving away from a world where stocks of knowledge and short-lived transactions are the key to success. In its place, we find a world where participation in many, diverse flows of knowledge and long-term, trust-based relationships determine success. In this new world, shy people can be at a significant disadvantage. We run the risk of becoming increasingly stressed and marginalized by the extroverts who welcome the opportunity to broaden and deepen relationships. They thrive in crowded rooms while we are deeply uncomfortable with exposing and sharing."
social-norms  learning  network-culture  stock-and-flow  cultural-dynamics  knowledge  collaboration  trust 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Civility and Incivility, Truth and Fiction at #scio10
"Each of the presenters gave a nice, thoughtful, 5-minute talk about their views on the issue, but what everyone was waiting for was the fireworks when open discussion began. For a while the discussion was tame enough, with everyone exchanging platitudes about how they view the issues. But then things got a LOT more heated...."
social-norms  science  academic-culture  online  ironism-FAIL  discourse  argument  personal-brand  disintermediation-in-action 
january 2010 by Vaguery
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
"In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized-- connected "up" to Big Media but not across to each other. And now that authority is eroding. I will try to explain why.
It’s easily the most useful diagram I’ve found for understanding the practice of journalism in the United States, and the hidden politics of that practice. You can draw it by hand right now. Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole “sphere of consensus.” Call the middle region “sphere of legitimate debate,” and the outer region “sphere of deviance.”"
journalism  media  social-norms  social-dynamics  discourse  politics  communication  criticism  authority  newspapers  analysis  consensus  disintermediation-targets 
january 2010 by Vaguery
zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Innovating Institutional Cultures
"Western executives (think CEO) may be having difficulty grasping the changes that Hagel describes because they run counter to cultural trends emerging among this generation of transnational elites ( not just big business). Increasingly, formerly quasi-meritocratic and democratic Western elites in their late thirties to early sixties are quietly embracing oligarchic social stratification and use political or institutional power to “lock in” the comparative advantages they currently enjoy by crafting double standards through opaque, unaccountable authorities issuing complex and contradictory regulations, special exemptions and insulating ( isolating) themselves socially and physically from the rest of society. It’s a careerism on steroids reminiscient of the corrupt nomenklatura of the late Soviet period."
class  politics  economics  social-norms  cultural-dynamics  innovation  management  worklife 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Email as a habitat: an exploration of embedded personal information management - PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)
"Email has become more like a habitat than an application. It is used for a wide range of tasks such as information management and for coordination and collaboration in organizations. Our research shows that email is the place in which a great deal of work is received and delegated and is a growing portal for access to online publications and information services. Indeed, users have been seen to co-opt email as a personal information management (PIM) tool. This follows from what we have found to be a common tendency of knowledge workers, which is to embed personal information management directly into their favorite workspaces. In this article, we explore further these new and unanticipated uses that are made of email, and suggest potential design ideas to support them better. We present the findings from four months of fieldwork conducted at three companies."
email  knowledge-management  social-norms  social-networks  worklife  communities-of-practice  communication-infrastructure  cyberinfrastructure 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Computational Complexity: Is posting about 17x17 problem BAD FOR ACADEMIA?
Been here, met these people, and laughed in their faces: "This is just like when teachers ask their students to model or code parts of a system that will be used in the teachers own research eventually. this is really bad for academia in general. Never again propose such things, please." I'm looking at you, winning bidder on the Erdös auction
academic-culture  disintermediation-in-action  crowdsourcing  mathematics  social-norms  tribalism 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Will Health Care Reform Lead to Salaried Doctors? « naked capitalism
"I suspect Frank is right on the pay issue, but for the wrong reasons. I am always staggered when I hear of law school and business school graduates being in debt to the tune of $100,000, even $200,000. I have no idea what the level for MDs is, but I imagine it is even worse.

And you cannot discharge student debt in a bankruptcy. You have no choice but to pay it (or I suppose flee the US or go underground, there are always extreme options). So the fee for service model may remain intact despite the fact that it produces poor outcomes for society as a whole because the current generation of doctors needs high incomes to so they can service their debts."
medicine  medical-culture  financial-crisis  healthcare  social-norms  entrepreneurship-as-pathology 
november 2009 by Vaguery
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The Long Tail of Respect
"Engagement that begins with the intention of affecting others but not being affected by them, such as beginning with “I know” is ultimately merely an attempt to introduce or perpetuate a hierarchical power structure. By contrast, engagement that begins with the willingness to be affected by others is in accord with the horizontal and ethical environment of mutual respect that is characteristic of p2p culture."
collaboration  social-norms  conversation  p2p  panarchy  cultural-engineering 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Michael Nielsen » The Logic of Collective Action
"What Olson shows in the book is that although all parties in a group may strongly desire and benefit from a particular collective good (e.g., a stable climate), under many circumstances they will not take individual action to achieve that collective good. In particular, they often find it in their individual best interest to act against their collective interest. The book has a penetrating analysis of what conditions can cause individual and collective interests to be aligned, and what causes them to be out of alignement."
via:jyew  collaboration  openness  economics  collective-action  social-norms  social-psychology  classics 
november 2009 by Vaguery
The top 12 things he heard from VCs when pitching Augmented Reality | Beyond The Beyond
"*I wonder what’ll happen to our civilization when people realize that financiers don’t really do very much for the privilege of mishandling all the money. They work extremely hard, don’t get me wrong — they just don’t allocate funds very effectively. Societies top-heavy with financiers are in visible, physical decline — empty houses, unhealthy populations, decaying bridges, hollowed-out industries, that sort of thing."
venture-capital  social-norms  technology  management 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Exploration Through Example » Blog Archive » Drive out waste
"Now, as Jonathan Kohl would point out, many people marching behind the Agile banner do the same: they use Agile as another club with which to beat people. I’m less worried about Agile, though, because its base rhetoric is more explicitly humanist. Lean is more likely to be an attractive nuisance because the idea of driving out waste appeals to executives who find it less work to remove waste than to convert it into value—executives who get license to act sociopathic because they have a fiduciary duty to treat business as a machine for maximizing shareholder value, externalities be damned. I worry about Lean in a business culture where we are trained out of empathy for Lear, damned fool though he surely is."
lean  agile  business-culture  agility  Taylorism  management  social-norms  social-engineering  worklife 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Economist's View: "Public Trust has Economic Consequences"
"Deviating from society's average level of trust is costly only of the average level of trust is correct. Prior to the financial crisis, the level of trust was too high and more distrust than average would have been helpful in avoiding losses. Also, because the level of trust was too high, restoring trust to the blind faith level it was at before the crisis would be unwise. There wasn't enough fear and mistrust in financial markets as the bubble was inflating, and more skepticism and doubt than is appropriate. We need to rebuild trust, but even with an optimal regulatory response, we shouldn't go back to the same level of trust in complex financial products, ratings agencies, etc. that we had before."
trust  social-norms  public-policy  financial-crisis  community  oversight  risk 
october 2009 by Vaguery
The Agile Skills Project | xProgramming.com
What I'll be doing in November

"The Agile Skills Project is a non-commercial resource that will establish a common baseline of the skills an Agile developer needs to have, including a shared vocabulary and understanding of fundamental practices. The Project intends to:

establish an evolving picture of the skills needed on Agile projects;
encourage life-long continuous learning;
establish a network of trust to help members find like-minded folk, and to identify new mentors in the community."
agility  social-norms  social-engineering  accreditation  credentialing  disintermediation-in-action  collective-attention 
october 2009 by Vaguery
apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
"We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space."
twitter  social-norms  sociology  community  web2.0  MSM  then-they-dismiss-you 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Agility@Scale: Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development
"Recognize that there is a demand for certification. The agile community needs to put together a decent certification program, something that the Scrum Alliance has clearly failed at doing. My article Coming Soon: Agile Certification provides some thoughts as to what we need to do. The good news is that people such as Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson, and others, are putting together a developer certification program. The really good news is that these are the right people to do this. The really bad news is that they’re doing it under the aegis of the Scrum Alliance, so whatever they accomplish will unfortunately be tainted by the fallout of the CSM debacle."
credentialing  credentials  certification  Scrum  agility  social-norms 
september 2009 by Vaguery
I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Also? I will not work on your fucking website for equity, nor even listen to your pitch.
entrepreneurship-as-pathology  social-norms  social-isolation  valuation  ideas  innovation  obligations  advice  no-success-starts-with-failure-to-understand-context 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Yet another study taking down gamers
"First, note the non-negative aspects of the study. Stereotypes take another hit as gamers have an average age of 35, and are implicitly equally divided by gender. (Yes, I still get academics telling me gamers are only teen males) Will these get media attention?

Second, the technological determinism. Gaming drives depression and bad BMI, it seems, less than games being chosen as art or entertainment by those with such conditions. One wonders if the social ostracism attached to depression and obesity points one towards a cultural artifact with a bad cultural reputation."
gaming  stereotypes  received-wisdom  epidemiology  cause-and-effect  social-norms  studies 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
"It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again."
writing  literacy  cultural-norms  cultural-assumptions  pedagogy  transformation  social-media  education  social-norms 
august 2009 by Vaguery
Long Term Investing Appears to Have Gone Out of Fashion -- Seeking Alpha
"While you can place some blame on high frequency traders for skewing the data, Business Insider points to week-to-week performance benchmarking as one culprit. Our sell side experience leads us to agree, even monthly performance benchmarking is ridiculous for measuring fundamental investing given the vagaries of the market in the short term. The result is that a lot of fund managers have no choice but to engage in speculative trade-chasing covered by heaps of fundamental BS to maintain their firm's fundamental, disciplined image."
investing  trading  data  financial-crisis  social-norms  received-wisdom  benchmarking  unexpected-consequences  heaps-of-functional-BS 
august 2009 by Vaguery
Sweet Juniper!
"I've seen "feral" used to describe dogs, cats, even goats. But I have wondered if it couldn't also be used to describe certain houses in Detroit. Abandoned houses are really no big deal here. Some estimate that there are as many as 10,000 abandoned structures at any given time, and that seems conservative. But for a few beautiful months during the summer, some of these houses become "feral" in every sense: they disappear behind ivy or the untended shrubs and trees planted generations ago to decorate their yards. The wood that framed the rooms gets crushed by trees rooted still in the earth. The burnt lime, sand, gravel, and plaster slowly erode into dust, encouraged by ivy spreading tentacles in its endless search for more sunlight."
houses  Detroit  local  financial-crisis  abandonment  photography  geography  exploration  social-norms 
august 2009 by Vaguery
http://agileroots2009.confreaks.com/videos/16-jun-2009-09-00-artisanal-retro-futurism-team-scale-anarcho-syndicalism-brian-marick-small.mp4
video  conferences  agility  agile-management  revolution  social-norms  social-networks  propaganda  history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug  kawgooshkawnick  not-an-employee 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
"One person who hands out a lot of leaflets these days is Lynne Price, a local activist known affectionately as “Gobby Lynne”. Yet she gets much of her information about planning proposals, crime and so on from the internet. This illustrates one effect of the digitisation of information. As newspapers weaken and die, most people probably become less informed about local affairs, but a few motivated folk grow extremely knowledgeable. Ms Price will miss the Bedworth Echo, but not as a source of news. It was, she says, a useful way of getting the word out."
news  newspapers  disintermediation  journalism  affordances  adaptation  digitization  social-norms 
july 2009 by Vaguery
iPhone 4G, Google Wave, Google Voice; Collaboration Transformed | iPhoneCTO
"I find it humorous to watch as IT organizations debate the merits of iPhone in the enterprise. CIOs and CTOs of major companies cite a plethora of reasons why iPhone isn’t ready for the enterprise; they bat these notions about like a piñata at a Cinco de Mayo celebration. But few of these uptight C-level naysayers seem concerned about hungry competitors and organizations with disruptive products and business philosophies who will adopt iPhone as if their future depends on it. In fact, for many, their future does depend on technological alchemies surrounding the iPhone as a mobile application platform."
disintermediation  collaboration  technology  iPgibw  iPhone  business-models  social-norms  social-networks  cultural-dynamics  project-driven-life 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Why I write for free - Emily Magazine
"I write for free because there seems to me to be no meaningful relationship between whether a publication pays me and whether it’s worthwhile for me to write for them. I’ve been skillfully edited and I’ve been allowed to babble on painfully unchecked by paying and non-paying publications alike. I’ve garnered indirect material benefit from paying and non-paying publications alike. I’m not suggesting that anyone follow my example or positing that I know what The Future of Journalism entails, but I do know, barring catastrophe, what my particular future is: I am going to keep getting paid to write when I can and writing for free when I can’t. If/when this situation becomes untenable for me as a way of actually making my living, I’ll start making more of my money with my non-writing endeavors. People have been doing exactly that, and writing sad essays about the injustice of having to do exactly that, for much longer than the Internet has been around."
worklife  Internet-threat-or-menace  publishing  media  blogging  free  journalism  social-norms  economics  expectations  Workantile 
june 2009 by Vaguery
OnTheCommons.org » Varieties of Enclosure & Commons Alternatives
"An important addition to the growing international dialogue about the commons can be found in the new anthology, Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong? (discussed in this previous blog post). Recently released in German, the essays in this book are now available online in English.

The book was edited by Silke Helfrich and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation; Helfrich is the former director of the Foundation’s Mexico City office, which hosted a major conference, Citizenship and Commons, in December 2006. The collection, whose title in English is To Whom Does the World Belong? offers a thoughtful and provocative array of viewpoints on the commons. (The links below connect to pdf files of the essays.)"
commons  economics  public-policy  law  sustainability  books  essays  philosophy  social-norms  Workantile 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Special Innovation Zone: Imagination Without Regulation
"Each of these examples is based on a story I've heard of an innovative project that died not because it was a bad idea, but because of societal inertia. Given how tough it is to start new projects (and find financing and support) under normal circumstances, innovators facing this kind of opposition often end up contenting themselves with incremental -- sometimes downright meaningless -- gains."
innovation  social-norms  public-policy  experiment  kawgooshkawnick 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Citizen Journalism: The Key Trend Shaping Online News Media - Introductory Guide With Videos - Robin Good's Latest News
"While debating what makes for good journalism is worthwhile, and is clearly needed, it prevents the discussion from advancing to any analysis about the greater good that can be gained from audience participation in news. Furthermore, the debate often exacerbates the differences primarily in processes, overlooking obvious similarities. If we take a closer look at the basic tasks and values of traditional journalism, the differences become less striking."
via:smalljones  via:hrheingold  media  journalism  gales-of-creative-destruction  disintermediation  MSM  crowdsourcing  amateurism  redefinition  social-norms  business-model 
may 2009 by Vaguery
New Tools for Men of Letters
"The art of conversation, with its counterpart the dialogue as a literary form for presenting ideas, has also declined since the days of Galileo, while the art of advertising has advanced. Advertising is easily recognized as the literary form that most completely responds to the technique of the printing press, because it demands, above all else, a numerous and receptive "public" of readers. A great number of improvements in the graphic arts have been adaptations to the needs of advertisers. Yet, in its development of "direct mail" methods and circular letters, advertising seems to be more emancipated than literature from the printing press. One of the most curious recent developments in the graphic arts is the effort of the advertisers to make printed matter look like typescript, while the authors of books that are not in sufficient demand to warrant publication are seeking a typescript that will look like print."
nanohistory  communication  community  social-norms  scholarship  amateurism  1935 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Untitled - Suppose management is messing things up. Chances...
"But if an entire team walks, that’s much more like an addict’s “hitting bottom”. The consequences are going to be huge because any new team would have to learn the system from scratch. (Though I suppose management could delude themselves into thinking they have the project documentation to make that tractable.) And the departure of any series of employees [or, in the case of an addict, friends] is easy to rationalize: “he’s just a malcontent [no fun any more since he got married]”. But when *everyone* rejects you at once…"
worklife  management  teams  decision-making  social-norms  social-dynamics 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Clueless « The Edge of the American West
"The article is written apparently without irony. It is, however, such an epic of cluelessness as to beggar the imagination. Having to move from an apartment renting for $7000/month to one renting for $4500/month! Being forced to leave the china at the summer home! Proactively laying off three (nameless) employees! Oh, the agony! The shame!

If you are wealthy, then, to the Times, you are a story in your own right. If you are not, then you tend to be reduced to a number: so many hundreds of thousands laid off; so many millions without health insurance. There are those who are important as individuals and those important only in aggregate."
media  MSM  class  financial-crisis  social-norms  expectations-as-stylized-behavior 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Open Monologue » Unintended consequences
"A couple of good thoughts about those unintended consequences we create out here on the social side of the internet. I think that many of us are putting ourselves online in a very open and honest way because we want to connect to people. I’m surprised how many people I’ve connected with online who describe themselves as introverts. Having some tools that allow people to connect, including those who find it difficult to connect in their analog lives, is a tremendous social good."
social-norms  social-networks  social-dynamics  personality  enabling-technology  consequences 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Poster Children
"The particular dilemma, at this point, boils down to which part of 'unsustainable contract' trumps the other. UF is claiming, correctly, that the current fiscal shortfall demands some level of sacrifice. Babb and the union are claiming, correctly, that a contract is a contract.

Both sides are right, but if they've retreated to such intractable positions they've both already lost. If the University 'wins,' I'd expect 'stars' to start decamping for greener pastures as soon as the market improves, since they'd be afraid that promises are written in sand. If Babb 'wins,' the University will have to take out its cuts instead on those least able to fight back – it's not like the fiscal crisis will just go away -- and the anti-public-education conservatives will have their latest Ward Churchill to use as a battering ram. Either result is ugly."
academia  management-failure  social-norms  labor  financial-crisis  faculty  union  negotiation  public-opinion  adjunct 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Steamboats Are Ruining Everything: Poor Richard on Flame Wars
"I wish you had omitted . . . all those Expressions of Resentment against your Adversaries. . . . In such Cases, the noblest Victory is obtained by Neglect, and by Shining On."
social-norms  flamewar  rhetoric  wisdom-after-the-fact  misdirection 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Coding Horror: Are You An Expert?
[indirect but key]
"Practice, practice, practice!
Don't confuse experience with expertise.
Don't trust folklore -- but learn it anyway.
Take nothing on faith. Own your methodology.
Drive your own education -- no one else will.
Reputation = Money. Build and protect your reputation.
Relentlessly gather resources, materials, and tools.
Establish your standards and ethics.
Avoid certifications that trivialize the craft.
Associate with demanding colleagues.
Write, speak, and always tell the truth as you see it."
expertise  learning-by-doing  teams  project-management  social-norms  assumptions  skepticism  self-image  pragmatism 
february 2009 by Vaguery
An EdTech Survivalist Interlude: The End is Coming at bavatuesdays
"She said that Mexico and Canada will merge with us and that a new, open source dollar called the Amero is going to replace the dollar. But the most scary thing is what she told me she’s been doing for the past couple of years. She’s been overseeing the construction of Learning Object Repositories being built all throughout America."
disintermediation-jokes  library2.0  social-norms  academia 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti is on the move in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Identity, microformats, and the self (as seen on the net)
"Come on people, don't believe that you can create a world where the bits in the system are a perfect mirror of who you are. Individual identities are not something that can be reduced to microformats. I can change my mind, and not have to go back and update a zillion web pages to reflect that change of mind. Whatever you are calling "identity" here is emphatically not what human beings think of as their identity; perhaps if you replaced it with "dossier" the nature of the data gathering would be more clear in a historical context (think Stasi, for instance, instead of Facebook)."
self-image  online  identity  social-norms  that-word-you-keep-using  personal-brand 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Uses of Students
"She said that while cc grads who transfer to her university do just as well academically as native students, they don't donate as much back to the university as alums. They only spent two years there, instead of four, so they don't feel the same level of attachment. The university knows that, so it puts a pretty tight lid on transfer admissions. It admits a few students to fill out the numbers in some upper-level courses, but that's it. It doesn't want to jeopardize the future funding stream from donations."
academia  social-norms  business-models  education  class  income  demographics  marketing 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Software Development - A Non-Contrarian View
"1. Agile teams may be prone to rapid accumulation of technical debt. The accrual of technical debt can occur in a variety of ways. In a rush to completion, Iterative development is left out. Pieces get built (Incremental development) but rarely reworked. Design gets left out, possibly as a backlash to BDUF. In a rush to get started building software, sometimes preliminary design work is insufficient. Possibly too much hope is placed in refactoring. Refactoring gets left out. Refactoring is another form of rework that often is ignored in the rush to complete. In summary, the team may move too fast for it's own good...."
agility  teams  design  management  programming  development  social-norms  failure 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Environmentalism May Face Major Setback in 2009 - Seeking Alpha
"The essential problem is the tragedy of the commons. Global warming and concern about CO2 emissions is a global, social problem that has extraordinary long term impacts, but when you look at it on an individual level, the marginal returns that a selfish individual can gain by ignoring the greater good far exceeds the marginal cost to that individual in the short run. In the long run, though, everyone pays more."
sustainability  economics  behavioral-finance  marginal-economics  politics  activism  global-warming  prediction  social-norms 
january 2009 by Vaguery
My War Against Food Nazi Moms - The Daily Beast
"I just want to let the food Nazi moms in on what happens when your kids come to a house where junk food inhabits the pantry. They have no decision-making skills or sense of moderation when faced with the forbidden fruit roll-up. Like deprived animals, they are determined to consume the lifetime allotment of sugar they have been denied; all before pick up. I have seen such a child eat Swiss Miss Cocoa with a spoon directly out of the family sized container, only to move on to conquer a box of frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts. When faced with not one, but three brands of chips, they become apoplectic and run from the kitchen clutching bags of Cool Ranch Doritos and French Onion flavored Sun Chips, only to be found in a corner curled up in the fetal position surrounded by wrappers, unable to state their name."
childrearing  forest-for-trees-error  social-norms  privileged-parents  parenting  proscription 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Machine Learning (Theory) » Adversarial Academia
"The adversarial viewpoint makes you stupid. When viewed adversarially, any idea has crippling disadvantages and no advantages. Contorting your viewpoint enough to make this true damages your ability to conduct research. In short, it promotes poor mental hygiene."
academia  academic-culture  peer-review  collaboration  anti-collaboration  zero-sum  social-norms 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation | Religious Right | ReligionDispatches
"Evangelical leaders are only beginning to understand this new dynamic and to account for the damage that has been done to the image of Christianity by the politics of division that has been practiced by the Christian Right over the last few decades. In his recent book, Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, David Kinnaman, the young president of the Barna Group, found that “Christianity has an image problem” among America’s youth (16- to 29-year-olds)."
social-norms  culture-war  conservatism  evangelism  politics  polarization  demographics 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Why College Is A Waste of Money - The Daily Beast
"Which means that financially speaking, the spectacularly high dropout rate boils down to a spectacularly bad investment. Though there’s no specific data, one can imagine the countless millions that are wasted financing educations that never come to fruition. We could try to predict which students would be part of the 46% who don’t finish, then encourage those students not to go to college. But to do this would mean a lot of students who might graduate never get to give it a shot. That wouldn’t be fair. So what we can do instead is identify the 5% or 10% of students who are the least likely to graduate, and not send them to college."
academia  colleges  social-norms  economics  public-policy  pyramid-schemes 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Homeschooling Research & Scholarship: Home Page
sociology  social-norms  education  academia  demographics  research  homeschooling  teaching  culture-clash 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Nelson's Weblog
"Two factor authentication is nothing new, but in the US it's unusual for it to be available in such a common consumer product. A lot of my friends who play the game have gotten authenticators for themselves after seeing people lose their accounts. Sure wish I could easily get the same protection at my bank."
auth&auth  security  WoW  banking  social-norms  tools  business-opportunity 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff | | AlterNet
"These universities, because of their incessant reliance on standardized tests and the demand for perfect grades, fill their classrooms with large numbers of drones. I have taught gifted and engaged students who used these institutions to expand the life of the mind, who asked the big questions and who cherished what these schools had to offer. But they were always a marginalized and dispirited minority. The bulk of their classmates, most of whom headed off to Wall Street or corporate firms when they graduated, starting at $120,000 a year, did prodigious amounts of work and faithfully regurgitated information. They received perfect grades in both tedious, boring classes and stimulating ones, not that they could tell the difference. ..."
education  academia  academic-culture  criticism  essay  social-norms  cultural-norms  economic-crisis  via:tsuomela  via:vielmetti 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Why Giving Money to Your Alma Mater is Immoral - The Daily Beast
"Think of it this way: If you believed that the government should have bailed out the automakers with no strings attached so that they could continue business as usual, then by all means: send money to your old school and pray that they decide to use it smartly. But if Detroit has taught us anything, it’s that large, old, entitled institutions don't restructure until they're hamstrung. Economic turmoil is forcing everyone, from corporations to individuals, to reexamine their finances and reconsider their poor choices. This is a good thing, and a lesson to be learned for colleges too, if their alumni will let them learn it."
academia  economics  fundraising  social-norms  financing  philanthropy 
december 2008 by Vaguery
News N Economics: Consumers still adding leverage to income; when will this stop?
"I recently had a client apply for a credit card. She is a homemaker, with no personal income. The house she lives in is in her husband’s name. She would have asked for a $3,000 credit line, just to pay miscellaneous expenses and to establish some credit on her own. So the computer is told that her household income is $150,000; her mortgage/rent payment is zero. The fact is that her husband’s mortgage payment is $7,000 a month (which he got with a no income verification loan). She had a good credit score, but limited credit since she has only lived in this country for the last three years. The system gave her an approval for a $26,000 line of credit!"
leverage  economics  financial-crisis  social-norms  consumerism  debt  credit-cards 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Political agency and changing the world
"In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency. All three genres also may embody themes of personal psychological empowerment, of course, though often very different in the details, as contrasted by the way the heroines “win” in romances, the way detectives “win” in mysteries, and the way, say, young male characters “win” in adventure tales. But now that I’ve noticed the politics in SF, they seem to be everywhere, like packs of little yapping dogs trying to savage your ankles. Not universally, thank heavens—there are wonderful lyrical books such as The Last Unicorn or other idiosyncratic tales that escape the trend. But certainly in the majority of books, to give the characters significance in the readers’ eyes means to give them political actions, with “military” read here as a sub-set of political."
science-fiction  politics  fantasy  romance  fiction  social-norms  marketing  genre 
october 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: Limited Edition
"From adversity always seems to come a little opportunity. The Ann Arbor Chronicle - “the community newspaper and town hall” – is somewhat the way I remember the news, it just isn’t folded as tightly as my papers. The difference is I didn’t get paid anything to write this column and you didn’t pay anything to read it, so we’re even. I don’t like to owe anybody anything."
social-norms  newspapers  social-publishing  publishing  history 
september 2008 by Vaguery
EconoSpeak: The Irrelevance of Workers In Economic Theory
"At the same time as questions of labor were disappearing, economics began to elevate the status of investors' financial claims, insisting that owners of this form of property had rights equal to those of owners of real goods, such as land or factories. Even something as ephemeral as "good will" became recognized as property."
economics  social-norms  social-construction-of-science  academia  politics  sociology  labor  work  worklife  models 
september 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Meeting Watch: UM Regents (18 Sept 2008)
"They gave President Mary Sue Coleman a 4 percent raise, bringing her salary to roughly $553,500, effective Aug. 1, 2008. They said she’s doing a great job. She said thanks. Everyone clapped."
local  Ann-Arbor  University-of-Michigan  regents  news  meeting  social-norms  social-networks  transparency 
september 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: The New Literacy and The Enemies Of The Future
"The elephant in the room is the movement from solitary studying to a collective, hivemindish mode of learning, where kids are shifting for questioning to answering, from learning to teaching all the time."
reading  fear  social-norms  books  literacy  education  transformation  collaboration 
august 2008 by Vaguery
/Ground
localism  local  community  paleo-something  commons  activism  social-norms  cultural-norms 
july 2008 by Vaguery
David Simon: The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed
"...we will all soon enough live in cities and towns where politicians and bureaucrats gambol freely without worry, where it is never a risk to shine shit and call it gold."
journalism  news  newspapers  media  social-norms  business-model  localism 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Evolving Web: Tribal Affiliations and Value - or - Don't Dis My Homies in Da Cubes
neotribalism  cultural-norms  stereotypes  self-definition  worklife  outgroups  social-norms  social-engineering 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Butterflies and Wheels Article
"In any case, there is something deeply inauthentic about the contemporary demand for authenticity."
via:jbdelong  anthropology  cultural-norms  social-norms  prejudice  golden-age  sociology  identity  AUTHENTIC 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Pixar's tightknit culture is its edge - (37signals)
cultural-norms  worklife  social-norms  creativity  innovation  collaboration  business-culture 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Help:WikiCharts
investment  finance  crowdsourcing  wiki  investing  trading  explanation  social-norms 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » The End of Capitalism
business-culture  business-model  capitalism  consulting  social-norms  activism  functionalism 
july 2008 by Vaguery
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