like Car Pooling but oriented to adhoc single-ride handling (more)

customer service engine - online help docs, chatbot, etc. (more)

northwest-us mini-city

Home Page of a site driven by Internet Marketing. (more)

Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney (born May 2, 1945) is an American former military analyst for the Pentagon who became famous in the early 1980s for what became known as the "SpinneyReport", criticizing what he described as the reckless pursuit of costly complex weapon systems by the Pentagon, with disregard to budgetary consequences. Despite attempts by his superiors to bury the controversial report, it eventually was exposed during a United States Senate Budget Committee on Defense hearing, which though scheduled to go unnoticed, made the cover of Time Magazine March 7, 1983. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_C._Spinney (more)

The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News. Larry Ellison is already a major stakeholder in CBS and Paramount. Now CNN, HBO and a major share of TikTok are in his sights. If all goes as anticipated, this tech billionaire, already one of the richest men in the world and a founder of Oracle, is poised, at 81, to become one of the most powerful media and entertainment moguls America has ever seen. (more)

Opinion: Fox News and the anxious elderly."Viewers don't want to be informed. Viewers want to feel informed." Those are the words of Chet Collier, one of the founders of Fox News, as quoted in Gabriel Sherman's new biography of Roger Ailes, the network's chief. (The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country) (more)

Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff. *In his new book, the author of “Fire and Fury” continues his specialty: teasing out stories from men in power. (more)

Matt Seybold: The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother. In a kleptocracy, antitrust is not a tool for diluting monopoly power, but for concentrating it. During his first term, Donald Trump openly fantasized about using federal antitrust provisions to break up media conglomerates and tech companies he felt threatened by. (more)

Matt Taibbi: Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever. Ailes was the Christopher Columbus of hate (more)

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer" from Ward Cunningham (more)

Cursed images (more)

Traditional "management", even most software product management, is Industrial-Age Command-and-Control thinking that is net-negative for managing creatives. We need a re-framing of Agile Software Development with a business-building software Product Development mindset. Rapidly Iterative based on FeedBack. A bit post-Lean-Startup. Product-Led, Customer-Driven. (more)

Chris Aldrich: Creating a commonplace book or zettelkasten index from Hypothes.is hashtags. I thought it might be useful to have a relatively complete list of cross linked topical headings in my digital notebook (currently Obsidian) which is a mélange of wiki, zettelkasten, journal, project management tool, notebook, and productivity tool (more)

Triggered by Mike Caulfield's Jul'2015 posts (emphasis on curating, connecting, annotations) plus others' responding/riffing, want to start over without even assuming wiki. (more)

way to identify a "special" word by prefixing with a hash '#'. (more)

Technorati Tags: Why Do Bad Ideas Keep Resurfacing? If you weren't using the Web in the 1990s this may seem new and wonderful to you but the fact is we've all seen this before. The so-called Technorati Tags are glorified HTML META tags with all their attendant problems. The reason all the arguments in Shelley's blog post seemed so familiar is that a number of them are the same ones Cory Doctorow made in his article Metacrap from so many years ago. (cf hashtag)

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Jon Udell: Mapping people and tags on Mastodon. In Mastodon relationship graphs I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods. When I use the word map here, I’m channeling Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps: Every map shows this … but not that, and every map shows what it shows this way … but not the other way. (more)

Henrik is famous for his previous work as coach at Spotify and LEGO, and his work as Minecraft gameplay designer at Mojang... His most famous work includes the "Spotify Engineering Culture" video (known worldwide as the "Spotify Model"), the viral video "Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell", and the skateboard metaphor for product development. He has also written several books on Scrum and Agile product development. https://www.abundly.ai/team/henrik-kniberg (more)