Dan Farber on Don Tapscott's Wikinomics book (effect of Wiki For CollaborationWare) coming soon. (more)

Encyclopedia written in Wiki. Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪki-/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ee) is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020.[4] Featuring no ads, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. http://www.wikipedia.org (more)

The current Woot! is the EeePc 900A NetBook (running LinuxOS), for $170! I ordered 2. (more)

"All models are wrong" is a common aphorism in statistics; it is often expanded as "All models are wrong, but some are useful". It is usually considered to be applicable to not only statistical models, but to scientific models generally. The aphorism recognizes that statistical/scientific models always fall short of the complexities of reality but can still be of use. The aphorism is generally attributed to the statistician George Box, although the underlying concept predates Box's writings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Life Spirit Distillation. Personal growth is a bad frame (framing) for thinking about your life. Here is an alternative: life intensification. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Jonathan Livingston Corporation. Bird brains are just the right size to solve for specialized survival... There IS however, an ideal species onto which humans can and do project their solving-for-aliveness instincts: corporations (more)

Josh Dickson thinks EverNote is flailing. Much like Drop Box, the core product has changed little over the past several years despite the company being flush with cash, traction, and resources... Evernote hasn't made even good products for a long time. Like many others I've talked to, I was once a heavy Evernote user, and its died a slow death of irrelevance in my work flow. It fails to even do one thing great, and instead tries to make up for it by doing a number of other things poorly... Most business customers are using other products already that more than adequately address the need of a Note Taking application. (Ugh I don't really agree those NoteBook alternatives - GoogleDocs, OneNote - are good, but from the general user's perspective I suppose they're Good Enough.) (more)

Richard P Gabriel has the full text of his Patterns Of Software book available free online as PDF EBook, including forward by Christopher Alexander.

Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê shape and genesis creation, literally "the generation of form") is the biological process that causes a cell, tissue or organism to develop its shape. It is one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology along with the control of tissue growth and patterning of cellular differentiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis

Élan vital (French pronunciation: ​[elɑ̃.vital]) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, in which he addresses the question of self-organization and spontaneous morphogenesis (morphogenetic) of things in an increasingly complex manner. Elan vital was translated in the English edition as "vital impetus", but is usually translated by his detractors as "vital force". It is a hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms, which Bergson linked closely with consciousness – with the intuitive perception of experience and the flow of inner time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_vital

“Every graph-centric program attempts to expand until it can read/write Twitter. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” (more)

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild ISBN:0805019790. A Capitalist Economy can best be comprehended as a living EcoSystem... Briefly stated, information is the essence of both systems... Bionomics holds that Economic Development - and the social change flowing from it - is not shaped by a society's genes, but by its accumulated technical knowledge... (more)

Britt Blaser (with pointers to others: Slashdot, Cory Doctorow, Clay Shirky and John Robb) on Everett Ehrlich's article applying Ronald Coase's Theory Of The Firm to Political Party formation. (more)

Azeem Azhar: Blurring the Coasian Boundary (more)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,[1] KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

Lion Kimbro wants a Sudbury School for adults - CommunityWiki:SudburySchoolForAdults. Hacker Spaces? (more)

alternatives to There Is But One Infinite Game (more)

New MacBookPro arrived today. (2020-09-23) Time To Replace MacBookPro (more)

for Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems (more)

As people are re-discovering the "digital garden" metaphor, I decided to pull together some links here.... (more)