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Replacing Google Reader in 10 Minutes
RIP Google Reader. Even though all evidence pointed to it, I hoped it wasn’t going to happen. Here’s my coping mechanism: OpenShift + Tiny Tiny RSS I installed the Tiny Tiny RSS aggregator and reader using an +OpenShift quickstart +Gunnar Hellekson put together. If you already have an account, you can have your Google Reader replacement up in running in 10…
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Internet of Things and Twine
I’ve been asked by a number of people what is this “Internet of Things?” So, here’s a draft. Where do you disagree? What if everything could share information? Internet of things is making sharing information simple by bringing the network capabilities of computers to anything and everything. Who knows what will happen in uses? Maybe…
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How do you turn your phone into a tool?
I picked up a Galaxy S III over the summer, and a few minutes every week making the phone do more work for me. What are your Android tips? Change application view to alphabetical list or grid Apps – menu – view type – select Make sure you set up a password on your phone. Put…
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Daring Fireball: Open and Shut
John Graber of Daring Fireball has a great (albeit occasionally snarky) post challenging the value of “open” for shareholder value in technology companies. The key point he starts to discuss, and then backs away from, is the value of externalities contributing to create better products faster. Tim Wu also hints at this in his piece…
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Life in a Networked Age
John Robb, who brought us the term “open source warfare,” wallops the concerns of governance of our increasingly global network: A global network is too large and complex for a bureaucracy to manage. It would be too slow, expensive, and inefficient to be of value. Further, even if one could be built, it would be impossible to apply…
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Transnational Corporation Networks Affect the Market and Stability
The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held…
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Manufacturing as Tools for DevOps and Agile
Learning DevOps, and Agile Dev through Manufacturing. Great themes for cloud ops http://t.co/AfcOfxpb h/t @ahpook — Erich Morisse (@emorisse) November 2, 2012
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Open Source is Design for System Resilience?
You have to support change to have resilience. Dr. Richard Cook at #Velocity2012 http://t.co/i2P3pkP6 <- big implications for #opencloud — Erich Morisse (@emorisse) July 16, 2012 Wow, if this doesn’t sound like the open source philosophy…
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Casio: Reducing Planning Time and Costs with Standards
Casio's IT is named "business development department." Wow. I wonder who else thinks that way. http://t.co/RS2t1Jef — Erich Morisse (@emorisse) July 12, 2012 Hats of to Casio for such a forward looking ethos in their IT.
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3 Recommendations on Process Scale Reading
There’s a difference between engineers in most IT shops and in manufacturing. In IT, there’s a heavier emphasis on design (servers, apps, architectures, etc) than “figuring out how to make things in the greatest numbers and the fastest possible time” [Freedom’s Forge]. With economics what they are today, and the potential operational impact of the…
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