April 9, 2007

the network

4 Comments

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[Car­toon part of the Mic­ro­soft Blue Mons­ter Series. Backs­tory from Steve and Kris etc.]
[Bonus Link:] Microsoft’s Steve Clay­ton res­ponds to the recent “Mic­ro­soft is Dead” meme.

Ove­rall I think it’s a well writ­ten post and has some very valid points. The main point is nobody fears Mic­ro­soft these days. GREAT — that’s pro­gress I think. Why should peo­ple fear Mic­ro­soft? That’s what got us a bad name in the first place!

[P.S. I got the line, “The net­work is more power­ful than the node” from Adriana.]

4 Responses to “the network”

  1. steve clayton says:
    April 9, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    my favou­rite in the series so far Hugh — thanks!

  2. Jon Husband says:
    April 9, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Hey, I recog­nize two-thirds of that sym­bol … ;-)

  3. hugh macleod says:
    April 9, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    Hey Jon, yeah, it reminds me of the dra­wing I did for you two years ago… not to men­tion, “The net­work is more power­ful than the node” sounds exactly like something you would say ;-)

  4. Jon Husband says:
    April 10, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    “Net­works deve­lop around nodes that ins­tan­tiate pur­pose and mea­ning” (lear­ning from you ;-)
    Someone recently asked me “how do you design a net­work” ?
    I replied “You don’t”. But you do come up with a clear pur­pose, ins­tan­tiate it at a node that has something use­ful to say or do about that pur­pose, and go from there …