Comments on: the thingamy http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:03:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5572 Jon Husband Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:42:58 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5572 Good points, Ric. Looks like the future to me ... plus,. accordinmg to IBM advertisements, it's invisible ;-) More wirearchy raw material, surrounding and penetrating us (figuratively) and what we do (literally) Good points, Ric. Looks like the future to me … plus,. accordinmg to IBM advertisements, it’s invisible ;-)
More wirearchy raw material, surrounding and penetrating us (figuratively) and what we do (literally)

]]> By: Ric http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5571 Ric Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:59:21 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5571 "Art naif" or court jester? - only the fool can tell the king he's naked. I wholeheartedly agree with the thought that monolithic software can only, by definition, represent an out-dated model ("Any program, once working, is obsolete"). Where the middleware (and I don't agree that it is boring BTW) fits in is making it possible to fit changing modular pieces together to support (create?) new business models which disrupt the integrated, monolithic models currently extant - check out Clay Christensen's thoughts about this: <a href="http://www.claytonchristensen.com/." rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.claytonchristensen.com/." rel="nofollow">http://www.claytonchristensen.com/.</a></a> Open source software helps here because it is increasingly possible to get "free" (as in speech, and often as in beer) middleware, making it possible for the 'long tail' programmer (like Alan Gutierrez <a href="http://engrm.com/blogometer/2005/04/11/living-the-long-tail.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://engrm.com/blogometer/2005/04/11/living-the-long-tail.html" rel="nofollow">http://engrm.com/blogometer/2005/04/11/living-the-long-tail.html</a></a> to fashion systems from the building blocks scattered around the internet. “Art naif” or court jester? — only the fool can tell the king he’s naked.
I wholeheartedly agree with the thought that monolithic software can only, by definition, represent an out-dated model (“Any program, once working, is obsolete”). Where the middleware (and I don’t agree that it is boring BTW) fits in is making it possible to fit changing modular pieces together to support (create?) new business models which disrupt the integrated, monolithic models currently extant — check out Clay Christensen’s thoughts about this: http://www.claytonchristensen.com/.
Open source software helps here because it is increasingly possible to get “free” (as in speech, and often as in beer) middleware, making it possible for the ‘long tail’ programmer (like Alan Gutierrez http://engrm.com/blogometer/2005/04/11/living-the-long-tail.html
to fashion systems from the building blocks scattered around the internet.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5570 Jon Husband Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:04:14 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5570 BTW .. don't agree you're out of your league. I think you're more like the artists who use the "art naif" genre, often cutting through to the essence in light-hearted ways. keep it up .. it used to be about technology and the technological infrastructure .. more and more, it's about the sociology, psychology and employing truth instead of smokescreens. Yo understand what's going on .. it's the big shakedown at the OK Corral between accepted management/organizational science and theory and the dynamics of interlinked real-time sociology. There's a reason why blogging has grown so rapidly, and continues to grow .. it's real and it works. The trouble with playing in the "right league" is that you kinda have to fit in or fuck off, reciting and regurgitating the conventional wisdom for mega-bucks (most of which go to the partners who created the brand that proffers the advice which gets bought). This is both the mainstream advertising and the mainstream consulting game, no? Typically, although not always, those partners made it to such elevated staus on the back of ideas and concepts that as often as not are either obsolete, fading in significance or just plain farked but got bought a lot by previous clients. BTW .. don’t agree you’re out of your league. I think you’re more like the artists who use the “art naif” genre, often cutting through to the essence in light-hearted ways. keep it up .. it used to be about technology and the technological infrastructure .. more and more, it’s about the sociology, psychology and employing truth instead of smokescreens.
Yo understand what’s going on .. it’s the big shakedown at the OK Corral between accepted management/organizational science and theory and the dynamics of interlinked real-time sociology. There’s a reason why blogging has grown so rapidly, and continues to grow .. it’s real and it works.
The trouble with playing in the “right league” is that you kinda have to fit in or fuck off, reciting and regurgitating the conventional wisdom for mega-bucks (most of which go to the partners who created the brand that proffers the advice which gets bought). This is both the mainstream advertising and the mainstream consulting game, no?
Typically, although not always, those partners made it to such elevated staus on the back of ideas and concepts that as often as not are either obsolete, fading in significance or just plain farked but got bought a lot by previous clients.

]]> By: Synapse Chronicles http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5574 Synapse Chronicles Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:34:52 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5574 <strong>Thingamy</strong> The true geek that I am, I'm intrigued [via gapingvoid]... Thingamy

The true geek that I am, I’m intrigued [via gapingvoid]…

]]> By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5569 Jon Husband Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:49:50 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5569 Couldn't agree more witrh Sig. Enterprise software is "electronic concrete" poured over business processes that increasinglky will have to flex and change more and more, as the electronic grains of sand represented by microcontent and links keep on eroding the concrete. Big integrated systems often (usually ?) still follow the blueprints of the organization's hierarchical top-down org charts more than is responsive or friendly to customers, and by extrapolation, the markets made up of those customers. Couldn’t agree more witrh Sig. Enterprise software is “electronic concrete” poured over business processes that increasinglky will have to flex and change more and more, as the electronic grains of sand represented by microcontent and links keep on eroding the concrete.
Big integrated systems often (usually ?) still follow the blueprints of the organization’s hierarchical top-down org charts more than is responsive or friendly to customers, and by extrapolation, the markets made up of those customers.

]]> By: ForwardMarkets http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5573 ForwardMarkets Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:01:30 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5573 <strong>Software isn't perfect? Say it isn't so.</strong> Recent post over at gapingvoid is talking about the fact that software often codifies a body of knowledge, say accounting, and that the assumptions and practises that are thereby codified are quite often counterproductive or wrong. Software isn’t perfect? Say it isn’t so.

Recent post over at gapingvoid is talking about the fact that software often codifies a body of knowledge, say accounting, and that the assumptions and practises that are thereby codified are quite often counterproductive or wrong.

]]> By: MarkN http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5568 MarkN Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:05:54 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5568 "Middleware" is highly relevant to the whole long-tail discussion, so it is definitely worth thinking about. Look at it this way: “Middleware” is highly relevant to the whole long-tail discussion, so it is definitely worth thinking about.
Look at it this way:

]]> By: Tom Guarriello http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5567 Tom Guarriello Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:59:09 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5567 Because technology is an amplifier, whenever you automate a screwed up model, all you do is create a faster, more efficient screwed up model, no? Revisiting the underlying models, however, is so conceptually and emotionally taxing that almost no one ever really does it. Because technology is an amplifier, whenever you automate a screwed up model, all you do is create a faster, more efficient screwed up model, no? Revisiting the underlying models, however, is so conceptually and emotionally taxing that almost no one ever really does it.

]]> By: sig http://gapingvoid.com/2005/04/28/the-thingamy/comment-page-1/#comment-5566 sig Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:50:49 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1432#comment-5566 C'mon Hugh, you're most definitely in the right league: Cartooning is conceptualizing reality, so tries software - only diff is one is fun and better at it, the other is..eh.. seen as boring :-) C’mon Hugh, you’re most definitely in the right league: Cartooning is conceptualizing reality, so tries software — only diff is one is fun and better at it, the other is..eh.. seen as boring :-)

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