Martin Pluss

HI all,

Tim Berner Lees in his blog explains the evolution of thinking from net to web to social graph in a clear and precise way.

The Net links computers, the Web links documents.

Now, people are making another mental move. There is realization now, “It’s not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important”. Obvious, really.

Personally, everytime we sign on for a new Web 2.0 tool we are a step further away from keeping things together. We are connecting more socially and yet losing more of our control over our person web space.

Its not the Social Network Sites that are interesting — it is the Social Network itself. The Social Graph. The way I am connected, not the way my Web pages are connected.

It is really interesting to see the evolution of the trends from the eyes of the person who started it.

Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That’s what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary.

cheers Martin

The great Sorting out

Hi all,

Well there is a lot to this section of The World is Flat which is best sumarised by these points:

1. India vs Indiana – whom is exploiting whom

An interesting case study talking about the way some companies go to India to Outsource or how technologists come from India to USA to get things done and thus further their career.

2. From command to control to collaborate and connect.

This is the fundamental shift which in education can be reflected more in participative pedagogy.

3. Colin Powers Secretary of State “ Yes he no longer comes looking for information. He already has the information. He comes asking for action.”

In life and my work I have learnt that the more you know and the more you talk and communicate when you get into a meeting a lot of thinking has been done and you can move onto the action stage.

Now I don’t even know if anyone reads what I writing about here but I wonder how many people are thinking about this great sorting out or are they too busy involved in the actual sorting out and do not realise they are the actors in the play? Sort of like in a few years they will reflect back on how things have changed and did not realise, to borrow from Peter Ellyard, that they had a chance to shape their preferred future than just accept a probable future.

Hi all,

Personal preferences aside I seem to have been infiltrated by the ALP in my Facebook account. There is a new web part with no cross in the corner for me to delete saying I am a fan of Kevin Rudd.

cheers Martin

Hi all,

I have been a fan of E-books for a while and looked closely at the Sony E Reader but felt trapped by its proprietary approach. So two years ago I settled for a HP IPAQ while with my failing eyesight I have trouble reading it now, at least I can read word, html and pdf documents.

Now there is a lot of online buzz , a Newsweek article and I can keep going with the boss’s view, about the release of Kindle – Amazon’s electronic book with internet connectivity. I am really tempted and will have to do some research – looks pricey at $US400.

I am very tempted. I was only thinking today that I do a real lot of collecting information but I would not mind just sitting down and reading….

cheers MArtin