April Newsletter
I'm not even going to dare talk about the frequency of the newsletters :-) Hoping to get back on track, but I know I said that last time... Usual topics: systems, the design of them and the individual dots - people, information and technology. Enjoy
Systems
- Infinity - they keep making more of it: why bigger isn't always better
- The future of cooperation and economic growth - TED interview with Alex Tabarrok
- End the university as we know it - Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning
- Successful complex systems always evolve from simple ones - they never start out complex
- Will cloud computing providers become too big to fail?
- 13 books to read about social media
People
- Beware Panic Panic - why it's officials, not citizens, who needlessly panic by Overcoming Bias
- Group Dynamics and Effectiveness -Why teams don't work, by J.Richard Hackman (Harvard Business Review)
- Luxury or Necessity? We're making a U-turn - social and demographic trends by Pewter Research Center
- Lost in the real world, found via cyberspace - the new role of digital samaritan
Information and Design
- Adding search power to public data - Google introduces graphing feature to compare stats
- Researchers mine your web data for profits and the public good - e.g. geotagging Flickr photos to make maps of the world
- Questions in presentations - advice from Nicholas Bate to improve your presenting skills
- Turn left at the surge of excitement - maps as images, emotional cartography
- 8 simple ways to improve typography in your designs
Technology
- One ning to rule them all - the rise of Ning for creating social web sites (over a million to date!)
- Encarta nostalgia: SGML and the semantic web
- Second Life Avatar named among real life noteworthy architects - work includes Princeton University within 3D virtual world Second Life
- The history of the RFC
And finally, for a bit of fun...
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