November 2005
Blog readers need web accessibility too
Perhaps I am being harsh or even uninformed but the whole area of Web Accessibility seems to have been largely ignored in the blogosphere. Just try doing a google search on web accessibility and blogs and you will see what I mean.
Is wikipedia crap
No but some of it is of dubious quality
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales created a stir when he admitted online that the entries for Bill Gates and Jane Fonda were “a horrific embarrassment” and “nearly unreadable crap”.
The 3 rings of member commitment in any dynamic group
Managing any team, network or group becomes a whole lot simpler if you understand the three rings of member commitment.
The definitive guide to bioteams
New bioteaming manifesto published
I am delighted to announce that, in collaboration with my colleague Robin Good, and the very kind support of ChangeThis whose mission is "to spread important ideas and change minds" we are launching "The Bioteaming Manifesto - A new paradigm for virtual, networked business teams".
Collaborating as a community against SPAM
A tool which leverages the collective intelligence of web users to fight SPAM
I am evaluating an innovative anti-spam product Cloudmark which aims to adopt an automated collaborative approach between its users to identify SPAM flitered through a weighted assessment of each users reputation in correctly spotting and reporting SPAM..Cloudmark works like this:
Using advanced relaxation techniques for team breakthrough
Taking a break makes biological sense
In an article, Are You Working Too Hard, in the November Harvard Business Review, leading Mind/Body Researcher Howard Benson describes how to use advanced relaxation techniques to produce breakthrough in a problem or situation where you have got “stuck”.
How to make a business network grow
A crowd draws a crowd but you need to be fit too
Albert Laszlo Barabasi in his excellent book "Linked - the New Science of Networks" lets us into a secret about how networks grow. Relatively new research has shown that most networks are not random, as previously thought, but "Scale Free" . New nodes in a scale free networks attach themselves to other nodes based on a "preferrential attachment rule" .
Major collaborative business networks programme launched
Ecolead is a major European applied research project on collaborative networked organisations (CNOs)
Ecolead (European Collaborative Networked Organisations Leadership Initiative) looks like it could be one of the most important strategic research projects in the virtual collaboration area in Europe and beyond over the next 4 years.
Why do humans cooperate
Without perceived fairness cooperation breaks down
Andrew Brown, writing in The Guardian, on Saturday October 29, 2005, Basic instincts - Humans are inclined to love their neighbours, so long as they play fair points out firstly that co-operative and altruistic behavior between humans must make sense or else evolution would have rendered it extinct:
Is your computer a spam zombie
Your PC could be sending spam and you don't even know it
According to Newsweek (November 7, 2005) an incredible 60% of all spam is estimated to come from so-called zombie computers. These are usually home PCs hijacked without the owners knowledge.












