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links for 2007-12-19

• Citerus - Interview with Jerry Weinberg
  "But it's a new direction because it's the first movement to focus largely on social processes rather than purely intellectual ones. For that reason, I believe, it has more hope for success than the earlier movements, each of which made a little progress"
  (tags: software learning Teaching)

links for 2007-12-18

• Anthropologists and the "Human Terrain System"
  "Well, this debate very much cuts to the core of what the appropriate uses of anthropology are, regarding warfare and regarding large ethical issues about what does it mean to have anthropologists embedded with military forces during a time of war."
  (tags: ethics ResearchMethods)
• The Many Errors in Thinking About Mistakes - New York Times
  "If businesses and people are not making a certain number of mistakes, `they’re playing it too safe.'"
  (tags: decision mistake learning)
• Silicon Valley Oral History Project
  (tags: oralhistory database storytelling Narrative)
• Bletchley Park Veterans Day
  "Funding was secured in 2006 from the BCS 50th Anniversary fund and the UKRC for Women in Science and Technology, and an oral history project is now underway recording the memories of women that worked at Bletchley."
  (tags: oralhistory database storytelling Narrative)
• ABC News: Granny Hackers Make History
  "a sort of Rosie the Riveter meets Bill Gates"
  (tags: women oralhistory)
• Four Methods for Dealing with Interruptions (Agile Advice)
  (tags: Agile management Development)
• Retrospective Safety Exercise: Three Word Starter
  (tags: retrospective facilitation agile learning)

links for 2007-12-16

• Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor
  (tags: academia publishing)

links for 2007-12-15

• IBM Women in Technology Hall of Fame
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• Charles Babbage Institute: Oral history database
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• Computerworld - Oral History Archive
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• Computing Educators Oral History Project
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• IEEE History Center
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• Computer History Museum
  (tags: database history)
• Computer History Collection
  (tags: narrative database oralhistory storytelling)
• Institute for Oral History
  (tags: oralhistory)
• Glow-in-the-dark cat could help cut disease - Telegraph
  (tags: cat)

links for 2007-12-14

• The Big Lemon
  Sad that this has not proved successful, it has been lovely seeing these buses round town/uni.
  (tags: Brighton bus)
• Communication on Agile Software Projects
  (tags: agile Communication Development)

links for 2007-12-10

• Latour 5: Disliking the divide
  "We need another generation of crazed thinkers constructing new actor-networks, new mixtures of the social and the technical."
  (tags: agile Communication Management)

links for 2007-12-06

• Anecdote: Facilitation Archives
  (tags: facilitation Communication Narrative reflection retrospective)
• What Is ‘Facilitation’?
  (tags: facilitation Communication Narrative reflection retrospective)

links for 2007-12-05

• Dilbert on XP
  (tags: agile dilbert comics humor fun)
• Agile 2008 Submissions
  (tags: agile conference)
• Agile 2008 Toronto
  Really excited to see how the 'stage' metaphor plays out
  (tags: agile conference)
• The Agile Professor: Agile, ISW, the Learning Circle
  (tags: agile Teaching)
• The Agile Professor: Agile Learning Article Links
  (tags: agile Teaching)

links for 2007-12-01

• Agile Support
  (tags: agile forum blog)
• OpenAgile Wiki
  (tags: agile)

links for 2007-11-27

• Rough sketch of examples track at Agile2008
  (tags: agile conference)
• Examples “stage” at Agile 2008
  (tags: agile conference)
• Refactoring Your Development Process with Retrospectives
  Paper by Rachel Davies
  (tags: agile Communication reflection retrospective)
• InfoQ: How Long Should Retrospectives Last?
  Commentary by Amr Elssamadisy
  (tags: agile Communication retrospective)
• Duncan Williamson obituary - Times Online
  (tags: storytelling Narrative)

links for 2007-11-14

• use8.net - User Experience Society

links for 2007-11-05

• The Blog Readability Test
  I'm feeling vaguely satisfied that this came up as a postgrad-level site to read.  Not sure if I should.
  (tags: Fun readability)
• What Would Jesus Buy?
  Wishing that the trailer were available to the UK.  This looks to be an interesting documentary...
  (tags: Fun)

links for 2007-10-28

• Beyond the Tyranny of PowerPoint [PDF Flyer]
  Looks like a really, really interesting talk from Yiannis Gabriel that I can't make, on the effect of PowerPoint on education.
  (tags: Organisation Graphics visualization Teaching)

links for 2007-10-26

• ACM's Committee on Women in Computing
  Hmm, scholarships for conferences.   Useful.
  (tags: Funding ResearchMethods)
• Seventh Grace Hopper Conference Opens With Record-Setting Participation
  "ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC), underway here today, has set new records for attendance, scholarship awards, sponsorship, and underwriting. More than 1400 technical women and men f
  (tags: conference)
• Gamasutra - "Paper Burns: Game Design With Agile Methodologies"
  (tags: agile Management SoftwareDev)

links for 2007-10-25

• The Story Behind That “Portal” Song, Its Place In Video Game History And Some Delicious Snacks
  "Jonathan Coulton has written a song that is sung in a new video game. People are talking about it. People even want to download it.  That doesn’t happen very often." (via Kevan)
  (tags: music games Fun)
• YouTube - Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive'
  The song itself.
  (tags: music fun game)
• YouTube - Facebook Song
  (tags: Fun music)
• YouTube - Walk your talk film promo
  Walk your talk Promo video (aka Matt and Ollie go walking)
  (tags: Fun Friends)

links for 2007-10-23

• Marian's Ten Top Tips for Research Students
  (tags: ResearchMethods)
• InQbate - Sussex Control System User Guide
  (tags: Admin Teaching Sussex CETL InQbate)

links for 2007-10-22

• Office Collar
  "Office Collar has been designed in response to the open plan working environment. The collars act spatial isolators, narrowing the field of vision, therefore enabling their wearer to focus on the tasks in front of them." (Via The Presurfer)
  (tags: Fun Office Workspace)
• The Presurfer: Cubicle Freakout
  "One of every eight workers works in a cubicle. Cubicle workers complain most often about noise - trying to hear themselves think over the sound of co-workers working, conversing, and talking on the phone. Some lose their temper and start yelling. Or get
  (tags: Fun Office Workspace)
• 8 Simple Ways to Enjoy Life Every Day
  (Via The Presurfer)
  (tags: Fun)

links for 2007-10-17

• Evolution of Dance (YouTube)
  All the good moves - may see about learning some ;)
  (tags: Fun Dance)

links for 2007-09-29

• TV Free Burning Man
  Videos from BM this year
  (tags: Fun)
• Adult Swim Video: Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
  If DJ Jesus doesn't turn up at Burning Man...  (This is only a partial clip but I really would like to see the rest)
  (tags: Fun)
• Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
  I'm not short of films to watch now (Via The Presurfer)
  (tags: Fun)

links for 2007-09-27

• Organizational Storytelling Seminars
  (tags: Story Organisation Management)
• Storytelling Organization Game
  "Go to Jail for telling  such a story"
  (tags: Story Fun Organisation)
• Storytelling in Organisations Links
  (tags: Story Organisation)
• The Art of Story Telling
  (tags: storytelling Story)

links for 2007-09-21

• XPDay | More than XP. More than one day.
  (tags: agile conference xp software Development)
• Map of Humanity
  Would love a copy of this (via Bifurcated Rivets)
  (tags: visualization Fun)
• Cat Herding Advert (The Presurfer)
  Advert for EDS, but nicely done nonetheless.
  (tags: Fun)
• InfoQ: Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards
  (Via Tom)
  (tags: visualization Agile development Graphics)
• The Black Guy at BRC
  Part of a really interesting forum discussion asking whether BRC is the largest gated white community in the states.
  (tags: Fun Culture)
• LOLTHULHU
  Entertained me at any rate.  (Via Simon Willison’s Weblog)
  (tags: Fun cthulhu lolcats)

links for 2007-09-18

• Burning Man '07 seen from above (hi-res jpeg) - Boing Boing
  I was there.  2.40 Grasslands/Habitat.
  (tags: burningman photography Fun visualization)

links for 2007-09-16

• The Wurst Gallery - Vintage Vandals
  (via The Presurfer)
  (tags: Painting Art Fun)

links for 2007-09-14

• Recognizing Agile Candidates
  "Recognizing candidates who are capable of performing well on agile teams doesn't require keywords. It requires thinking about the principles and asking questions that allow the candidate to show you she understands and applies the principles in her daily
  (tags: Agile Management Culture)
• The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin
  "Language is communication. That is the axiom on which all our theory and research rest, and from which all our discoveries derive; and the success of the discoveries testifies to the validity of the axiom."
  (tags: Fun Quotes Story Communication)

links for 2007-09-13

• How to write consistently boring scientific literature
  (tags: Writing ResearchMethods advice)
• Harwell's Unfortunate Laws of Human Organizational Behavior
  "People always try to use their experience even if it doesn't apply to the current situation." (Via Tom)
  (tags: Management Organisation Culture)
• The 44 Secrets of Business Information Technology Success
  Entertained by: "The best way to communicate with an IT organization is to talk to members of the organization as if they’re from a foreign country and don’t speak English very well." (again via Tom)
  (tags: Management Culture Fun)

links for 2007-09-12

• Proppian Fairy Tale Generator v1.0
  (Via Kevan)
  (tags: Folklore Story Language Generator)
• Slow Down Culture « A Mirror of My Thoughts!
  (Via Tom) "“Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face."
  (tags: Culture slow Scandinavia productivity)
• Quotes for Software Engineers
  (Via Tom)
  (tags: Software Quotes Development Fun)
• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics
  (tags: visualization data Graphics)
• Geek Bonding (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Trek) - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  (Via Tom) "There is no IT monoculture, and assuming that your geeks are Star Trek geeks is a good way to have them write you off. There is, unfortunately, no shortcut to knowing your particular crew."
  (tags: Geek Management Anecdote Culture)
• Sons of Butcher - Fuck the Shit
  As introduced to us by Andy while driving around SF.
  (tags: Song Fun)

Linked Out

I find myself with a mass of links on agile, conversation, communication, narrative and collaboration which I need to form into some kind of order - preferably before my analysis gets too far. 

So, I have taken the plunge and will follow Tom (amongst others) into the dark world of daily del.icio.us updates. 

For too long have I forgone it, but now I see no other way.  Hold this space.