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In light of my personal view of Tangler as a potential Third Place of Learning I'm going to capture here some of the "best of Tangler"   more »

Third Places of Learning - slides from a keynote at EDEN Conference 2007 (Naples)   more »

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Seth's Blog: Flipping the Funnel--new ebook
Seth's new ebook is based on the simple premise that you should "Give Your Fans the Power to Speak Up" ....  it is much more than just recognizing word-of-mouth or "buzz" but incorporates the idea that, as Seth states in one of his previous blog entries:
"Embracing the funnel changes the way you treat people.  And treating different people differently is what consumers demand."

IEEE Spectrum: Patents 2.0  Writing in Spectrum online,  Lee Hollaar sugests ".... scrapping software patents altogether is not the solution. Instead, I propose that a new form of intellectual property be considered that gives reduced benefits in exchange for speedy protection."

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Hollar's suggestion is that showing that the technology had been independently created before the patentee's first commercial use would be an absolute defense for a second party, but the patent would still be valid against others who couldnot show substantial developement of their product prior to the patented product's introduction....

 EFF Sues AT&T to Stop Illegal Surveillance ... alleges that Telecom Collaborated with NSA to Spy on Customers (thanks to Jason Schultz LawGeek )

And in the the State of the Union Address, the President maintains not only is the practice legal but that the key people of the legislative branch were advised, and all is right... I'm still confused as to why the appropriate search warrants couldn't be obtained within the 72 hours after the taps were first made... since this argument doesn't seem to be debated very much  (rather just the yes he can, no he can't factions seem to be vocal)...I must be missing something... what?

from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?
A team testing the "visual working memory"  of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their  suprise, that  people with the largest capacity  VWM weren't actually retaining lots of additional information, but infact were simply selective in what they retained....or possibly the real genius comes in stripping out inessential information (filtering) and holding only in mind the red bricks that the researchers asked them to pay attention to.

This, of course, is exactly the type of thing that we would expect a "viable" system should do... keep the requisite variety in balance by filtering .... one of the problems with our corporate IT systems is they are built with an underlying assumption that management's problem is in retaining huge quatities of raw data ... so the database will step up, and by george... it will store everything.   Making subsequent analysis just a tad difficult sometimes.... in the move to real time worlds in business, there is a lesson to be learned here.

originally put in place for a predecessor weblog (http://cep.weblogger.com) this page was still under construction at the time that this website was started... it may be updated sometime.... the links marked "#" point to the articles on the weblogger site:    more »