Viable

Text Squidoo Plexo

dsoul — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:34:21 -0800

Test of Plexo module inclusion

Squidoo: LensRank

dsoul — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:34:59 -0800

Its soon to be much harder to keep on top of LensRank... I hope that the 14 day rolling window is the right period... certainly it should handle "event" pages (for example SuperBowl LX or Valentines Day 2006) quite well, but for intermediate events, it may extinquish a tad too quickly...I'm thinking here of something that had a bimodal interest node...early flury at some early event, low but some interest through a 'flat middle' and then rasing to a crescendo... but if people can't find what they are looking for during the 'flat middle' they may end up going elsewhere ....Search is still far from perfect (but has improved and the multiple top 100 lists improves things to a great degree)... but the only way to know for sure will be to follow the bouncing Ranking... interesting times for LensMasters.... heres part of the SquidBlog story:

SquidBlog » Blog Archive » Shaking up the Bestsellers At Squidoo, we’ve decided to shake things up a little. (Not that we suggest you shake your cream or milk containers.) LensRank (how we determine a lens’s popularity) will still be based on the same formula, measuring things like traffic, click-outs, reader ratings, inbound links and affiliate sales. But now we’re going to change when that formula is calculated. On Monday we’re going to introduce a 14-day rolling window. Which means what, exactly? Well, that our lensrank calculations will be done using data from the past two weeks, rather than looking strictly at a lens’s lifetime of publication. That will ensure that the freshest, timeliest and most actively updated lenses aren’t trumped by the lenses that perform well because they’ve been around longer. Squidoo is still rewarding the exact same qualities, but we’re tossing the grandfather clause out the window. So, heads up that you might see some interesting changes in ranking this week. No, it’s not an accident. Yes, your lens can still rise to the top. Now that we have more than 13,000 lenses, the competition is getting a little stiffer!

Squidoo: Lens on Lens

dsoul — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:03:38 -0800

This lens is quite different than my other lenses:
it is really a personal journal, rather than a traditional Squidoo Lens.
It contains some personal views on Lens design, construction and promotion.
I am using it to record some of the design criteria I have tried, used or abandoned in attempts in the very early beta stages of Squidoo. Hence the title "Lens on Lens."

Some Ideas are likely to have wide spread applicability (indeed some that I used very early on were discoverd by others independently ... for example use of internal links to specific modules within a lens) while other (especially those being used in the Massive lenses I have developed (which in some ways seem to be the antithesis of the Squidoo concept) may not prove viable in the end....

If you are considering building your own lens, it may be useful to follow some of the pointers to other resources... even if you don't choose to use any of my techniques, there is a lot to be learned from the resources I point to.

Squidoo: Management Matters

dsoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:42:26 -0800

This lens is based on a very simple premise....that Management does indeed matter, each of its modules looks at a different aspect of management that inturn matters to the overall practice of effective management.

While the aim of this lens is not to provide a TOE of Management (thats theory of everything!) a connection of this kind of thought is going to have to be taken into anything that does profess to be such a creation.... and nothing from the theorists, as yet, has come anywhere close.

Squidoo: Second Order Cybernetics

dsoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:07:59 -0800

Second order Cybernetics considers the impact that the observer has on the system being observed.... as such it covers all most all aspects of human endeavor.

In effect, those involved in second order cybernetics have turned the principles of cybernetics upon the field of cybernetics itself. In order to qualify as second-order cybernetics, the observer of a system must be described and explained -- the explanation can not be based purely on the system observed as if the observer did not exist.

Squidoo: General Systems Theory

dsoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:36 -0800

The notion of a system may be seen as simply a more self-conscious and generic term for the dynamic interrelatedness of components.

Von Bertalanffy

General Systems Theory is closely related to Cybernetics... this lens concentrates on the former but also examines the relationship and where the two fields overlap and can be used to give better insight into the workings of complex and emerging systems.

Squidoo: Educational Cybernetics

dsoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:02:36 -0800

Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations.

It is based on Cybernetics - the science of communication and control - but is often influenced by the more general System Sciences including the thoeries surrounding embedded systems (ecological) modeling.

It is normally approached through the form of "action research" and should be considered as part of the sphere of Second Order Cybernetics as studying education systems is of course the studying of people systems and the process of studying systems we are in causes the systems and us to change.

Squidoo: Invention and Innovation

dsoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:00:18 -0800

A look at Invention and Innovation over the ages -- with a special focus on construction and control of complex systems.

Squidoo: VSM

dsoul — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:13:59 -0800

This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM).

It is especially concerned with the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control.

Squidoo: Cybernetics

dsoul — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:04:07 -0800

A simple view of Cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine.

Cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science , is the study all forms of "organized complexity", that is how different components can be assembled in a way that is neither random nor repetitive so as to form a "system".

Pursued to its logical conclusion, this is a study about how a system of components can arranged in such a way as to fulfill a certain purpose. In this sense, Cybernetics is the study of viable system organization.