Comments on: flow and the new dimension http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: James Governor's MonkChips http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7475 James Governor's MonkChips Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:35:45 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7475 <strong>More privacy legisation: why I like the new HDS blog</strong> It takes cojones to criticize a potential customer in public. Its one thing for a blogger, or industry analyst to do so, but quite another for a senior executive enterprise IT supplier to make the personal so political... Criticise a competit... More privacy legisation: why I like the new HDS blog

It takes cojones to criticize a potential customer in public. Its one thing for a blogger, or industry analyst to do so, but quite another for a senior executive enterprise IT supplier to make the personal so political… Criticise a competit…

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7473 Bill de hOra Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:20:00 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7473 The Lifestreams model is very beautiful. On the downside, the company that tried to bring this idea to market, Scopeware, didn't make it. It was a desktop client that visually expressed the time stream metaphor in 2.5D which I don't think works, aside from the fact it's hard to get penetration via rich clients. Also, in the way many great ideas fail, it failed because it was too different from what existed. IMO searchboxes and tagging get it right by building on existing metaphors rather than supplanting them. I think another David is where to look now if you're interested in data streams, namely David Allen. His GTD workflow seems to appeal *enormously* to software types (that or software types have recently figured they need to get their act together just like everyone else does ;). Eventually some hacker with an ounce of taste will produce a killer workflow app on top of todo-lists/calendars (they all suck), and I bet it will look like GTD. What lifestreams did for me personally was get me to to give up on classifying my digital stuff into different buckets - it doesn't help much later on. Now I only sort information where search is inadequate (like in email). It's great that Google are tackling all the world's information, but I have a ton of stuff right here already. I could really do with a Google minibox that fits on a USB key. The Lifestreams model is very beautiful.
On the downside, the company that tried to bring this idea to market, Scopeware, didn’t make it. It was a desktop client that visually expressed the time stream metaphor in 2.5D which I don’t think works, aside from the fact it’s hard to get penetration via rich clients. Also, in the way many great ideas fail, it failed because it was too different from what existed. IMO searchboxes and tagging get it right by building on existing metaphors rather than supplanting them.
I think another David is where to look now if you’re interested in data streams, namely David Allen. His GTD workflow seems to appeal *enormously* to software types (that or software types have recently figured they need to get their act together just like everyone else does ;) . Eventually some hacker with an ounce of taste will produce a killer workflow app on top of todo-lists/calendars (they all suck), and I bet it will look like GTD.
What lifestreams did for me personally was get me to to give up on classifying my digital stuff into different buckets — it doesn’t help much later on. Now I only sort information where search is inadequate (like in email). It’s great that Google are tackling all the world’s information, but I have a ton of stuff right here already. I could really do with a Google minibox that fits on a USB key.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7472 Jon Husband Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:58:40 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7472 And .. as David Weinberger said not too long ago .. "The cure for information overload is (paradoxically) ... more information" And .. as David Weinberger said not too long ago ..
“The cure for information overload is (paradoxically) … more information”

]]> By: Jon Husband http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7471 Jon Husband Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:57:17 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7471 *Functioning effectively in the flow* has been a regular topic of discussion amongst me and my colleagues for a couple of years now ... we'd best all get used to adapting as best we can. It's a huge issue ... we've got a century of mental models and structure in all of our important (or should I say omnipresent ?) institutions that have socialized us into thinking things are *static*, and that the next change .. in strategy, or a re-structuring, or a policy or program .. will *get it right* THIS TIME. ;-) *Functioning effectively in the flow* has been a regular topic of discussion amongst me and my colleagues for a couple of years now … we’d best all get used to adapting as best we can.
It’s a huge issue … we’ve got a century of mental models and structure in all of our important (or should I say omnipresent ?) institutions that have socialized us into thinking things are *static*, and that the next change .. in strategy, or a re-structuring, or a policy or program .. will *get it right* THIS TIME. ;-)

]]> By: elizabeth grigg http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7474 elizabeth grigg Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:02:00 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7474 <strong>relevancy</strong> Link to Fred Wilson via Hugh, but I quote: We've largely solved the 'automate and process' problems. But we haven't begun to scratch the surface of the relevancy problem. This is absoloutely right. If anything is going to keep me... relevancy

Link to Fred Wilson via Hugh, but I quote: We’ve largely solved the ‘automate and process’ problems. But we haven’t begun to scratch the surface of the relevancy problem. This is absoloutely right. If anything is going to keep me…

]]> By: sig http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7470 sig Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:46:12 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7470 Bill, interesting link! Liked the "He wants to move beyond space - to time. David Gelernter is looking for his pipe." :) But what happened to the "Lifestreams" project? Last I found was an update from 2000... Bill, interesting link!
Liked the “He wants to move beyond space — to time. David Gelernter is looking for his pipe.” :)
But what happened to the “Lifestreams” project? Last I found was an update from 2000…

]]> By: Stace http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7469 Stace Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:23:25 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7469 Reminds me of the Metaphysics of Whitehead (http://www.hyattcarter.com/whitehead's_metaphysics.htm) - In a summary barely recalled from my undergrad dyas, big picture thinking is nec. to understand what is pertinent to our understanding of the/a universe. Reminds me of the Metaphysics of Whitehead (http://www.hyattcarter.com/whitehead’s_metaphysics.htm) — In a summary barely recalled from my undergrad dyas, big picture thinking is nec. to understand what is pertinent to our understanding of the/a universe.

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7468 hugh macleod Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:16:06 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7468 Wow. Both are very cool links. Thanks Guys =) Wow. Both are very cool links. Thanks Guys =)

]]> By: Frank Patrick http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7467 Frank Patrick Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:53:04 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7467 My thoughts have been more about "organization anorexia" as a result of obsessive cost control as a replacement for flow/throughput management. More at <a href="http://www.focusedperformance.com/2005_08_01_blarch.html#112445463524783762" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.focusedperformance.com/2005_08_01_blarch.html#112445463524783762" rel="nofollow">http://www.focusedperformance.com/2005_08_01_blarch.html#112445463524783762</a></a> My thoughts have been more about “organization anorexia” as a result of obsessive cost control as a replacement for flow/throughput management. More at http://www.focusedperformance.com/2005_08_01_blarch.html#112445463524783762

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7466 Bill de hOra Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:43:35 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7466 <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html</a> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7465 hugh macleod Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:34:35 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7465 "Information Bulumia". HA!!!! Good one. “Information Bulumia”. HA!!!! Good one.

]]> By: james governor http://gapingvoid.com/2005/08/19/flow-and-the-new-dimension/#comment-7464 james governor Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:16:57 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1708#comment-7464 i had been thinking about information bulimia at the corporate level, but I guess it is just as relevant to the individual I call it "information bulimia", a disorder common amongst information intermediaries, characterized by episodic binge data collection followed by uncontrollable vomiting and purging, leading to information leakage and theft." i had been thinking about information bulimia at the corporate level, but I guess it is just as relevant to the individual
I call it “information bulimia”, a disorder common amongst information intermediaries, characterized by episodic binge data collection followed by uncontrollable vomiting and purging, leading to information leakage and theft.”

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