SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up.
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JUNE 14, 2008
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The Agile Manager
JUNE 29, 2008
This content is derived from material presented in a ThoughtWorks-sponsored webcast in June 2008. A two minute video presentation of this material is available. A complete webinar re-broadcast, including audience Q&A, will be available soon. The popular press makes Agile sound like nirvana. Practitioners speak of it in nearly religious terms. Yet we often find that IT teams are underwhelmed after going “Agile,” even after having expended considerable effort on making the change.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 10, 2008
It's funny how things intersect in life. I just ran into Chris Gammil's post New Era of Social Innovation where he describes it as: The model takes the best of the OPEN model and pushes right out into the open, further distributing idea sourcing, team forming, development, commercialization and economic distribution. What are some of the drivers? The social web is making it easier find people with similar passions for creation/innovation The social web is making it easier to find people with com
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 10, 2008
A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post. Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providin
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 4, 2008
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 28, 2008
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JUNE 14, 2008
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JUNE 4, 2008
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JUNE 4, 2008
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JUNE 2, 2008
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 30, 2008
What better kind of publisher could there be?! MIT Press publishes some neat books, and interviews the authors (podcasts) about their content. The site also has some links to some other good podcasts for the "techie in you". I've added the MIT Press Podcast to the Engineering Learning Wiki Podcast Section. Remember, I've built a custom Google Co-Op search engine which is hosted over on the wiki which allows you to search a large domain of technology podcasts, not just MIT.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 30, 2008
Ah. the good old days. back in the Fall of 1976. I took a term off from Dartmouth, and backpacked through Europe. Now my son Carl will do the same. he leaves tonight. However, Carl will blog about the subject. My parents we're lucky to hear anything from me. The only way to contact me was to mail a letter to an American Express office in the hopes I might travel through that locale.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 29, 2008
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 27, 2008
My thanks to a buddy from Texas Instruments who clued me in about this new content. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has brought online a new web service dedicated to open (and free) access to robotics courseware. The initial courses include offerings from Harvard, MIT and the National University of Singapore. However, if courses from these three top universities are "over the top" for you. then visit WALL*E where you may build a Bot!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 24, 2008
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 23, 2008
Late last week I posted that I was intrigued with a new IBM social networking application, Many Eyes. The field of data visualization is interesting, and the idea that one may share and visualize data sets via a social network appealed to me. so I created a tutorial. Now you may share my curiosity, and visualizations (or create your own). Northstar Nerd Tutorial: Data Visualization via IBM's Many Eyes.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 19, 2008
Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials ( more SL posts ). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 18, 2008
5,081 YouTube views can't be wrong, or can they? One year ago I realized that I could never understand the Web 2.0 revolution if I had never posted to YouTube. Thus, in a moment of mind bending clarity (???). I created the Northstar Nerd's Rapala Box Opening Video. My original post was a satire of techno box opening videos. Within days of my YouTube post, I was amazed to learn how many folks took my video seriously (see YouTube comments), and made fund of me!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 13, 2008
One week from tomorrow I will run in Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. I just designed and bought myself a new T-shirt for the race. If you don't get it (see images), you probably shouldn't be reading this blog! (click for an expanded view).
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 11, 2008
Every so often a web site comes along which really excites me, VideoLectures.Net is such a portal. I can't stress to highly that you must visit this web service (doesn't mean you have to ignore my other posts!). VideoLectures.Net is sponsored by some of Europe's leading technology societies, and the wealth of free engineering lectures is dumbfounding.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 11, 2008
In my second blast to the past, I revisit one of my favorite social networking posts which is indicative of the explosive growth of social networks. I have personally worked on some neat social networking projects ( Web 2.0 posts ), but last Fall I was amazed to learn via the MIT Technology Review that dogs had joined the revolution. Here is an excerpt from that post : Dog Tags for Virtual Sniffing : Believe it or not, dogs wearing a tag from Snif Labs , exchange ID codes when they meet.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 9, 2008
Everyone wants to grow their organization. It is often felt that an organization must "grow or die" Obviously, it is easier said than done. While I don't have the answers, Patrick Viguerie and Sven Smit who are both directors at McKinsey and Company recently published a new book, The Granularity of Growth. While purchasing the book is always a good option, here are two good sources to better understand the author's theme: Book Review: 1-800-CEO-Read: The Granularity of Grow
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 9, 2008
In August of 2006 I moved this blog from MSN to Typepad. Earlier today I topped 100,000 lifetime page views for this blog while hosted on Typepad. Those of you who have been with me throughout this entire journey have read 602 posts on categories ranging from Legos to Web 2.0. You've also had the opportunity to learn a little about Rich Hoeg, the individual, via posts like Loppets for LingYun and Pheasant.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 5, 2008
In this age of information, and rapid change, the ability to intelligently assimilate information and make correct product development decisions is imperative. Product life cycles are shortening year by year. The answer seems to be innovate or die. However, in this era of constant changes, it is also necessary to continously optimize your design / product development process.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 5, 2008
I discovered this blog, Software Engineering Matters , via one of my Google Search Bots / Google Alerts. If your discipline is software engineering, it's definitely work a look and RSS subscription. Here is how the blog author, Nicholas Chen, describes himself: I am currently pursuing a Ph.D in software engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 1, 2008
Are you a member of this clan? Do you wear this Tartan ? Is your technical documentation constructed like this? Do not use this device in the extremely thermal, cold, dusty, and watery circumstances. ( see more ). Considering most users don't even read user manuals, it is imperative your examples (or training) are constructed crystal clear. and with the true user in mind.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JUNE 10, 2008
In my first "Blast to the Past", I return to my November 21, 2006 posting, The Living Past. We often like to fool ourselves that the life of yesteryear was more genteel. As we enter a new presidential campaign season and gear ourselves up for the muck raking commercials that both major parties will fling at each other, watch some past campaign commercials.
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