russell davies
russelldavies.typepad.comLots of things are like that. They're not complicated. They don't require brilliant, innovative strategies, they're just hard. They require more work and more effort and than anyone might reasonably expect. The best managers create organisational room for that to happen.
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secondary attention and the ghosts in the corner
russelldavies.typepad.comI've been prototyping this by switching all my system alert sounds on and switching all the sounds on in growl. It's not the same but it's starting to work. I'm starting to hear what's going on in my networked world, rather than watch it.
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russell davies
russelldavies.typepad.com[ONE OF THOSE WOOLY TRANSITIONS YOU CAN DO IN A TALK BUT WHICH IS HARDER WHILE WRITING]
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russell davies
russelldavies.typepad.comPeople love people who can make things. Making’s the new thinking.
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russell davies
russelldavies.typepad.comThere is no 'client'. This really messes with agency people's heads. Obviously we're accountable if we screw up, the website falls over, the facts are wrong or the site's unusable. But it's not an agency-type relationship where someone distant and important has to 'approve' everything. This is mostly because our chief responsibility is to our users - they approve our decisions by using or not using the services we offer them.
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russell davies
russelldavies.typepad.comWouldn't this be a great way to represent editing and collaboration? - to show the seams, to illustrate how much writing is a communal process. And maybe it could be an inspiration for networked writing - how would you decorate these seams on the web? Anyway.
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“Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.”about | soup | flickr | pinboard | feed | archive
russelldavies.typepad.comSo I wonder whether the 'Internet With Things' is a more useful term than the 'Internet Of Things'. As Matt Jones has said "The network is as important to think about as the things" and the network has people in it. We're in there with the things
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