tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39090502024-03-12T17:32:05.187-07:00David HC Souldavid soulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05418621112483014819noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909050.post-1144133639543716452006-04-03T23:53:00.000-07:002007-02-23T05:13:53.950-08:00

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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

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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

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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

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"The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the Gods;

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Le Blog.: The wiener.

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EDS' Next Big Thing Blog : SOA Governance: "SOA Governanceby Charlie BessFor years - yes literally years - I've been talking to EDS internal groups and clients about the different governance that is required to effectively perform Service Oriented Architectures."

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Benford's Law Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No. 1 By Malcolm W. Browne (From The New York Times, Tuesday, August 4, 1998) Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. The following day he runs his eye over the

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Learned Motor Programs Directly Influence The Visual Perception Of MovementsFiled in: cybernetics

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Enriquez illustrates that nations beset with problems from within are always susceptible to break-up ... he focuses on the United States but also gives illustrations from Canada and Mexico....The book format is quite interesting... it uses a 'staccato' form ... with a lot of punch given through data, quotes, and sometimes just raw speculation... in a variety of type faces and spacing/blocking

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Independent Online Edition > Commentators:James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 yearsOn Del.icio.us: Lovelock, Gaia, ecology, climate

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Post-Genomics ? Systems Biology:Systems BiologyPosted by Sahotra Sarkar, Ph.D. on December 09th 2005 to General Systems Biology1Over a half-century ago, the renowned (and eccentric)2 mathematician, Norbert Wiener, suggested that living organisms be viewed as systems governed by feedback control.3 Wiener attempted to found a new discipline—“cybernetics”—for the study of such systems. In spite of

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Tagging with BlogThis! - Freshblog:From Ken's Meme Deflector comes XBlogThis!, an extension of blogger's "blog this!" bookmarklet that loads before the blogger window, and allows for the automatic insertion of comma delimited technorati tags & for a choice of formatting for the quote you select on the source page. Ken has tested the tool on Firefox & all is well. If you want to add technorati

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Ken's Meme Deflector: XBlogThis!: An Extended BlogThis! Button:XBlogThis!: An Extended BlogThis! ButtonIf you keep a with Blogger, you have probably come across the BlogThis! button. It is small bit of Javascript that you can add as a button to your bookmark toolbar that generates a post from the text that you have highlighted on a page. Technorati tags: Blogger, Technorati

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I have an application running on the "ning" playground that "shelves" some of the many books I have in my personal library in these areas.... many have a brief commentary and all have a ranking (1 - 5 stars) as well as links to amazon and allow others to add their comments or brief review...Cybernetics Bookshelf on ningThis entry linked to Wikispaces page (seeker)

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Robert Plotkin ('Automating Invention") otten writes about the economic effects of computer automation including the drive to develop and market skills that have not yet been automated. As he points out in this piece, Norbert Weiner, the man who coined the term 'cybernetics' nearly 50 years ago, had thoughts along this line....This entry linked to Wikispaces page (seeker)

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"He did some analysis of the data, and by all indications this powerful, narrowband radio signal was from outside of our solar system. But was it sent by an advanced civilization?"read more | digg story

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Before it stats the government is moving towards putting rules on "tourist" space flights....read more | digg story

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NZ is the most EFTPOS (credit / debit card) dependent country in the world... a much higher % of purchases are done by this means (rather than cash or check) than anywhere else ... Years ago it was suggested that real time analysis of the NZ economy could be achieved by monitoring the transactions over the EFTPOS network!It will be interesting to see if there is a social backlash overthis as

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BT's futurology department has predicted a broad sweep of future innovation including expected advances in artificial intelligence, health, medical, business, education, energy, robotics, space, telecommunications, transport and travel.A couple of interesting ... if off base in my opinion... future events:2006: space exploration creates superbug2015: self-aware machine

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"Researchers analyzed brain scans of people as the test subjects watched pictures on a cmputer screen. The images were divided into three categories: celebrities, places, and everyday objects like tweezers and a pocket mirror.Later, without any images and while their brains were still being scanned, the subjects were asked to recall as many of the images as they could. The researchers found that

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I'll have something to say about the cybernetics of the situation in future posts... for now its just interesting to note that in France, and now in Australia ,there is evidence that text messaging technology is being used to overcome the balance that was formerly in place where the technology of better communications allowed "the few" police to mark "the many" .... Violence Rages in

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Mark Palmer has created a web site that is a portal of sort into the world of Event Stream Processing. It includes descriptions of some of the various vendors approaches to ESP and CEP (Complex Event Processing) as well as having links to other web sites and resources on the web:Index of Event Stream Processing Resources

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SquareBlog: "stream joins vs. state machines vs. table-o-state vs. MechaGodzilla"Hans Glide writes: "I recently looked at using many event processing engines, which I?m starting to write about here. I found the following use case to be interesting in terms of revealing features of the products and sparking discussion." ....This piece is one of the few pieces posted with a user perspective of

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SquareBlog: "Rules Engines vs. Stream Processing Engines"Hans Glide writes "Stream processing engines sort of took me by surprise. I was following the development of JSR94 and all the spiffy rules engines, and I didn't even realize that there's a whole other category of software for processing streams of data."There are many vendors of stream event processing starting to appear... in many ways

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