Links last week - 080629

The following is a selection of links collected from 23rd to 29th June. Shared via Google Reader, FriendFeed and Twitter. Organised roughly by library category: Systems and the elements - People, Information and Technology.

Systems

• Nodal points: social objects and pattern recognition - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/06/27/reboot-jyri-engestrom-on-nodal-points/
• The largest social network ever analysed - http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/the-largest-social-network-ever-analyzed/
• Is there a new world of banking? - http://blogs.msdn.com/industry_social/archive/2008/06/24/is-there-a-new-world-of-banking.aspx
• Building a software company - http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html
• Player vs Everything: the retention game - http://www.massively.com/2008/06/02/player-vs-everything-the-retention-game/
• You and your research: interview with Richard Hamming - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html
• "The enterprise hasn't figured out how to embrace cloud computing; users are figuring it out very quickly" - http://gigaom.com/2008/06/25/structure-08-jonathan-yarmis-amr-research/

People

• Studies show the value of not over thinking a decision (can someone please tell the psychologists!) - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121450609076407973.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today
• The pyschological unity of humankind - http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/psychological-u.html
• How do you make a reputation for yourself? - http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/06/how_do_you_make_a_reputation.php
• Why nerds are unpopular - http://www.paulgraham.com/renerds.html
• (How) I Freed Myself From Email's Grip - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/jobs/29pre.html
• From brainstorming to blamestorming: credit and blame at work - http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/ben-dattner-on-credit-and-blame-at-work.html
• When does patriotism become prejudice? The assertion of identity - http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/06/the_assertion_of_identity.php
• Push the limits - http://howtosplitanatom.com/tips/push-the-limits-creativity/

Information

• The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory
• The last link created quite a storm of comments. Here are a couple of responses - Kevin Kelly for: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php; Chris Anderson (not the Wired one) against: http://cscs.umich.edu/%7Ecrshalizi/weblog/581.html and a commenter on FriendFeed is collecting all responses at http://www.diigo.com/list/imrchen/the-end-of-theory
• The Reddit Algorithm - http://redflavor.com/reddit.cf.algorithm.png
• How to use RSS to track thousands of news sources easily - http://marshallk.com/how-i-use-rss-to-track-thousands-of-news-sources-easily
• Infoporn: Tap into the 12-million-teraflop handheld megacomputer - http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_infoporn_1607

Technology

• Designing applications for high performance - http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2008/06/26/designing-applications-for-high-performance-part-iii.aspx
• MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (wiki) - http://scripts.mit.edu/%7Ecci/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Microsoft

• Analyst Reports for Office 2007 - http://blogs.technet.com/cbortlik/archive/2008/06/24/analyst-reports-office-2007.aspx
• Training and ELearning on SharePoint - http://blogs.msdn.com/ianpal/archive/2008/06/25/training-and-elearning-on-sharepoint.aspx
• The Governance Question (for SharePoint, intranets) - http://blogs.msdn.com/intranet/archive/2008/06/25/the-governance-question.aspx
• Designing browser-enabled forms for performance in InfoPath Forms Services - http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2008/06/25/designing-browser-enabled-forms-for-performance-in-infopath-forms-services-part-4.aspx
• How hard could it be? Code reviews with BillG (Joel Spolsky) - http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080701/how-hard-could-it-be-glory-days.html
• Lessons from BillG (a spoof but still v. funny) - http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/06/20/lessons-from-bill-gates.aspx
• What's public about Office 14? - http://www.pseale.com/blog/SharePoint14EverythingWeKnow.aspx

And finally, funny image of the week, courtesy of Bob Sutton's blog:

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