June 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Ornette Coleman
Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy
Sonny Rollins
McCoy Tyner
Wayne Shorter
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Open Secret of Success →
“In part, this is because most companies are still organized in a very top-down manner, and have a hard time handing responsibility to front-line workers. But itâs also because the fundamental…
Get Out of Your Own Way - WSJ →
“But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. This doesn’t rule out free will, but it does make it implausible.”
New research shows brain makes decisions 10 secs before we are conscious of it - doesn’t rule out free will, but “makes it improbable”
Finished harvesting the olives. Now off Martinborough to take them to the press…
Theremin strains as ‘One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest’ begins. The golden age of American cinema…
A form of network coverage? (6)
I’m thinking ‘tarmac’ http://is.gd/HIw
Social media ‘experts’ whose blogs serve sidebar before content = Fail
The forced optimism of the children’s ward at hospitals is bleakly terrifying. I’m in the Fisher Pryce circle of Hell…
Writing up my performance assessment for the year. Wondering: what on earth have I been doing?
James on Govt funding of http://netmums.com & using the site as a consultation forum. #comms08
James: “Govt needs active & informed consent - that means effective 2 way comms.” #comms08
Howell James, form perm sec for comms in the UK Cab Office about to speak #comms08
Howell James “audiences stagger under the weight of infobesity.” #comms08
Comms@08 - The Network of Public Sector Communicators annual conference http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/commsat… - http://bkite.com/00IOY
If you want to email me about your company’s exciting products, please do not open your email with the salutation “Dear Ryan” Kthxgefkd
Renewal and communications →
Deputy Secretary to the Canadian Privy Council shares some thoughts, and statistics, on the role of communications professionals in the Canadian public service.
Retweeting @innotecture Matt’s interview with me on matters Govt 2.0 is up http://is.gd/DGz Feel free to heckle in the comments…
Govt 2.0 podcast: Matt Moore & Jason Ryan →
Matt Moore interviews me about Govt 2.0.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Albert Ayler
Michael Brecker
Andrew Hill
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Howto Install Gimpshop in Ubuntu Hardy →
To make the transition a little more familiar…
Firefox 3: Tweak Firefox to Display Richer Colors →
Note: may increase peformance load…
Filling out my citizenship application: I’m going to become a fully fledged Kiwi…
Holiday in Hellmouth: James Woods on Theodicy →
Woods’ erudite reflections on ‘the problem of evil’
“I couldn’t read it. The human mind isn’t that complex.” Einstein, returning a Kafka to Thomas Mann.
Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) up and running. No issues whatsoever. Sweet.
At the Horokiwi solstice barbie with the locals. There is a lamb on the spit, beers and spectacular view over the harbour. FTW!
Completing a total backup so I can upgrade Ubuntu to 8.04 (I had been waiting for Firefox 3)…
15 insights from Day 2 - Ngenera/Harvard event on... →
Good roundup, including two killer quotes.
Joshua Schachter quits Yahoo! http://is.gd/BMO Looks like the new version of del.icio.us may be still some way off. <sigh />
Via @iketches a great quote from Chris Rasmussen of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency on Microsoft Sharepoint:
“Bringing overly cautious software into an overly cautious environment is like giving heroin to a drug addict.”
Elgg.org →
Open source social application engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application.
Civil Service: Participation online guidance →
What it says on the tin…
On the train home after a full day of public sector transformation and networking. God, this is *so* much harder than social media…
VSSA powerhouse presentation on their agile govt work: “choice, voice & personalization”
Good presentation by MAF on developing an outcome focussed performance management framework…
Backchannel at this conference is old school: passing notes… You do what you can.
“Politics is an important source of innovation in the public sector.” Mark Moore
Waiting for the Minster to officially open DevCon 2008… - http://bkite.com/00D02
“You have two but two topics, yourself and me, and I’m sick of both,” remarked Johnson to an apparently implacable Boswell…
I now have favicons working in my Firefox 3 bookmarks bar. It’s the small things that make me happy…
Technorati launches ad network http://is.gd/zNG Does anyone actually care? Talk about wantonly squandered goodwill…
Firebug is incompatible with Firefox 3. Ouch, that hurts…
To all those morons who think they can use Word for desktop publishing - just fscking stop, OK. You are not creative, you are not special…
At my age a 4 hour meeting is not so much a test of endurance as a painful reminder of mortality…
Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and... →
Handy cheat sheet of fixes.
Typically, the PR agency providing the (expensive) advice to NAB encouraging comment spam http://is.gd/yLR, has no social media presence…
NAB Spams Blogs. Australian Blog Owners Need To... →
NAB demonstrates how clueless PR people can totally fuck up social media, and remain convinced they are in the right.