SoCal CTO
JULY 20, 2008
Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. winners were increasingly separated from losers.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 1, 2008
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The Agile Manager
JULY 22, 2008
alpha IT journal.com I'm pleased to announce the launch of alphaITjournal.com , an online magazine focused on the execution, management and governance of IT investments that can produce outsized (or "alpha") returns. The mission and purpose are summarised in the welcome message on the site and in the press release that was issued in early July. There are a few things that I hope stand out about the site.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 2, 2008
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 31, 2008
On the way home I stopped at the grocery story. At the checkout counter I noticed a display for Topps Baseball Cards , 20 cards and a stick of gum on sale for $2.99. What a deal! Back in 1963, when I was seven years old, a pack of five baseball cards and that same stick of gum only cost 5 cents. Why do I remember this fact? My allowance was 10 cents per week, and I was allowed to buy one, and only one, pack of baseball cards per week.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 29, 2008
Doug and Jiro over at Doug's Pick of the Week are starting up a Technical Computing with MATLAB video series (free). Looks good so far, but I'm wondering if they will provide a larger image. Their blog has been listed for some time on my Engineering Learning Wiki ( blogs and pods section ). An update since yesterday. there is now a permanent link for all nine parts of this series.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 28, 2008
Although I advocate open access to engineering knowledge, I respect copyright. Thus, via this blog I have been hesitant to add many postings about free eBooks and manuals. It seems every post related to this topic attracts the worst elements to my blog (i.e. SPAM and worse discovered via my blog admin interface). Having said that, I could not ignore this resource, PDF SearchEngine.Com.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 28, 2008
Some of you know that I'm reliving my past via my middle son's backpacking trip through Europe. If you have any interest in bicycle racing you may enjoy Carl's Tour de France posting. He even has a very neat video which he personally took. My own travels through Paris via Eurail 32 years ago were not quite so exciting, but did include: Being all excited that I could serve as the "French speaking" guide for my fellow Dartmouth buddies, and upon having a long conversation in French with a "local"
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 28, 2008
Here is the latest addition to Engineering Blog Quest 2008: Igor Moochnick's Practical Engineering. The title of his blog tells you all. practical engineering. Today's entry is a hoot. Code Rap. Link on over to YouTube and watch / listen / learn how to write software code! However, if you would like some taste of Igor's practical side, try his handy electrical library post for Google Sketchup.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 24, 2008
Everyone talks about GPS , but how many people understand it? A leading manufacturer of GPS systems, Garmin, has published a free manual / eBook which explains basic concepts ( download now ). If you wish to learn even more about GPS follow this link to Garmin. The company has a nice educational portal which has additional content. I will add this information to my Engineering Learning Wiki (included the manuals section ).
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 23, 2008
I wish the mad scientist of Nottingham has been around when I was a kid. Instead, I watched the sheriff. this would have made Chemistry much more fun! My thanks to Brent Schlenker which is how I learned about "this" periodic table! In the mean time check out your favorite element! In fact, the site even has a social network quality. most watched, etc.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 22, 2008
Ellyssa Kroski is not your mother's librarian! In her blog's bio she notes "she also works as an information consultant providing services in web strategy, information architecture, social marketing," If you want to read (hopefully subscribe via RSS) to a cool blog which will keep you in tune with news and resources about the Web 2.0 revolution, then link!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 18, 2008
The first two blog results from my Engineering Blog Quest are in; both sites will be added to the Engineering Learning Wiki ( blogs and pods section ). My thanks to the folks who submitted these sites. As a reminder, I am seeking design or research engineering blogs which are maintained by individuals who you feel are passionately committed to the concept of open knowledge and sharing knowledge.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 14, 2008
Are any good science fiction novels still being written? The concept of taking a scientific or social idea and speculating upon a future world is becoming all to rare. Surprisingly, WALL*E ( see my post ) qualifies as "science fiction". When I took my family to the theater on opening night a few weeks ago (I got my WALL*E watch!), I was pleasantly surprised with this movie.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 11, 2008
Rankings are always open to debate, but I was very pleased to see this blog was recently rated the 4th most popular engineering blog in the world! ( see ranking from EngineeringJobs.Com). However, as much as that excites me, it leaves you. my readers "cold". You may justifiably ask: "who cares?". In an attempt to answer that question, I went out an reviewed the top ten ranked blogs.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 10, 2008
The web may be smart, but it's also rather dumb! Like most bloggers I enjoy checking my stats. This blog is quite popular, and I am intrigued to learn whom is linking to eContent (this blog). Within the last several days these two blog posts have been picked up and linked by Google Trends and IBM ManyEyes : Mea Culpa: Indian Institute of Technology Courses (and).
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 10, 2008
Do you know how to use Google? We're you aware that Google recently started indexing Flash based content (swf files)? Why should you care? The answer is that you are now able to find some phenomenal, high quality, animations / tutorials. Just a few minutes of reviewing search results yielded these tutorials in the "top ten". Google Queries | Content Discovered.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 9, 2008
I just assumed I had posted about the phenomenal group of courses the Indian Institute of Technology makes freely available via web based streaming. My Engineering Learning Wiki ( course section ) and embedded Google Co-op Search Engine were updated earlier this year with their content. However, while checking the Insititute's new courses, I was amazed to discover I had never blogged about this great resource.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 9, 2008
On the surface these three topics might seem unrelated, but they are! This evening I will take out to dinner four young men who just graduated high school. These guys are the core members of my S.N.I.P Lego robotics team. After having coached S.N.I.P. for six years. since their elementary school days, I wondered how I could recognize these boys, and the fact thay they were moving on in the world. to various engineering schools around the USA.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 8, 2008
Some of you may have read my post back in May which had the title: Minnebar 2008: Geeks 1 Minnesota Fishing Opener 0. This post reviewed the concept of BarCamps and UnConferences. While you might not consider Minnesota a hot bed of technology (too cold up here!), our BarCamps get better attendance than even the Silicon Valley events. Why should you care?
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 7, 2008
I've obliquely blogged about this content before, but I discovered a better access point which seems to list all the courses (from Ajax to Javascript) and TechTalks all in one location. This Yahoo portal page also has a iTune subscription link. Yahoo! Developer's Network: Courses and TechTalks. I've also added this information to the Engineering Learning Wiki Software Engineering Section.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 1, 2008
The norm for engineering R&D is to keep information 100% secret. Jean-Claude Bradley, who teaches at Drexel University, thinks differently. and openly. Before you reject this idea as "hogwash", you should review this information: Open Notebook Science. Jon Udell podcast interview of Professor Bradley (or). Presentation & commentary by Professor Bradley (via Flash).
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
JULY 14, 2008
A few days ago, I posted about my blog's ranking , which led to an interesting discussion over on iMechnica. Without reviewing everything discussed, my view is there really are not all that many "pure engineering blogs" out there which are maintained by individuals (as opposed to organizations). The discussion did lead me to the blog, " All About Flexible MacroElectronics ".
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